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From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs
Message-ID: <KRE5WAA@xds13.ferranti.com>
Date: 23 Aug 90 22:23:26 GMT
References: <5IA5TY9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <3890@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> <UZC5=UA@xds13.ferranti.com> <3932@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US>
Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva)
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In article <3932@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> pja@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US (Pete Alleman) writes:
> On the other hand, I see in my routing database some
> 6 hop routes to "Internet" sites when my neighbor could deliver directly.

So add another "u." file, that just does this:

internet = {
	list the sites you know to be on the internet here
	} (LOCAL)

> Maybe we need to start putting more information into the uucp maps.
> It would be nice if pathalias could be set up to "do the right thing."

It can.
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