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From: Makey@LOGICON.ARPA (Jeff Makey)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias ignores fast Internet connections
Message-ID: <455@logicon.arpa>
Date: 14 Jun 89 05:13:22 GMT
References: <742@crdgw1.crd.ge.com>
Organization: Logicon, Inc., San Diego, CA
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In article <742@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen) writes:
>  What we need is to change pathalias to reduct the cost of a transition
>between nets, and thus generate better maps.

No change to pathalias is needed.  Sites who are willing to serve as
Internet<-->UUCP gateways can simply show a suitably low-cost two-way
connection to a phantom host called, say, "internet".  A good cost for
the connection would be (ARPA/2).  Thus, gateways could add the
following to their map entries:

gateway    internet(ARPA/2)
internet   gateway(ARPA/2)

Conveniently, there is currently no host named "internet" in the UUCP map.

These gateway hosts would have to fix their mailers to deal with the
inevitable paths of the form ...!gateway1!internet!gateway2!..., but a
simple sendmail rule will do the trick.  And sites would only do this
on a voluntary basis.

Is this a good idea?  Are there any better ones?

                           :: Jeff Makey

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