Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: Re^2: Short-circuiting a route Message-ID: Date: 8 Jul 89 04:35:00 GMT References: <89Jun28.104844edt.10373@neat.ai.toronto.edu> <3569@ncar.ucar.edu> <4147@tank.uchicago.edu> <3572@ncar.ucar.edu> <4238@tank.uchicago.edu> <3650@ncar.ucar.edu> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 35 Greg Woods says: > ncar!asuvax!stjhmc!%s > > How does one take this and determine that "asuvax" happens to be the > rightmost host in this path on the Internet, and therefore that the > MX record should point to asuvax (and while we're at it, that the real name > of "asuvax" is "asuvax.eas.asu.edu")? net> uuhosts asuvax UUCP mail path from bionet to asuvax: asuvax: asuvax.eas.asu.edu!%s UUCP mail information for host asuvax (#USENET lines show USENET news links): #Name asuvax #System-CPU-OS VAX-11/780, 4.3BSD-tahoe #Organization Arizona State University, Engineering Computer Services #Contact Marc Lesure #Electronic-Address ncar!noao!asuvax!lesure, or lesure@asuvax.asu.edu #Telephone (602) 965-7873 #Postal-Address Tempe, AZ 85287-5206 #Latitude-Longitude 33 25 N / 111 56 W city #Remarks aka asu.edu on CSNET/ARPA #Written-by web per Marc Lesure 04/08/89 #USENET noao # vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv asuvax = asuvax.eas.asu.edu, enuxva.eas.asu.edu <*<*<*<*<*<*<*<*< ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ asuvax anasaz(POLLED), apciphx(POLLED), btc(POLLED), enuxha(LOCAL), gtephx(POLLED), hrc(POLLED), mcdphx(DAILY), noao(DEDICATED), sssphx(EVENING), stjhmc(POLLED), xroads(EVENING) Of course, one must now make a check to see if an A record exists.