Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: UUCP path cost reduction Message-ID: Date: 6 Aug 90 18:53:25 GMT References: <11@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <74:4H-G@xds13.ferranti.com> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 13 In article lear@turbo.bio.net (Eliot) writes: > One of the programs that used to be distributed with pathalias would > generate just such a file based on the system's host table. What system's host table? I don't have a host table. > Unsurprisingly enough, it's a maintenance headache. What's more, it's > unnecessary. The information is already there in the maps. No, it's not. Whether a given domain uses an A record or an MX record on the Internet is not in the maps. And in fact... unless things have changed recently... internet links aren't even supposed to be in the maps, or are in them only as terminals. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`