Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ditka!kls
From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: map wizardry - terminal links
Message-ID: <513@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 5 Dec 88 21:14:58 GMT
References: <571@comdesign.CDI.COM> <810@mailrus.cc.umich.edu>
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Inaction Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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In article <810@mailrus.cc.umich.edu> honey@citi.umich.edu (peter honeyman) writes:
>it seems to me you want to keep your interior hosts out of the
>maps and mark the uunet to comdesign link terminal.

That's nice if it works for your situation, but there could be a
variety of reasons why you'd want to list the interior sites.  As
one example, maybe they are interior only in the sense of being
part of the same organization -- think of ihnp4 and cbosgd the
way things were a year ago.

What I'd really like to be able to do is use the terminal notation
on a multi-hop kind of thing.  At my old job, we talked to sunpitt,
the local Sun sales office, which in turn talked to sun.  We were
welcome to send mail thru sunpitt!sun to folks inside Sun, but they
asked us not to forward stuff to outside of Sun.  This would have
been easy with domains, but the real world didn't offer that solution
and the only alternative was some sed-hacks on the pathalias output.

In this case, I wanted to say something like

    formtek	(DEMAND),		! sunpitt on demand
		(DEMAND+HOURLY)	! and they forward to sun

Maybe pathalias could (should) do the bookkeeping on the cost of
the secondary hop, and maybe another syntax would be better, but
you get the general idea.

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