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From: jessea@dynasys.UUCP (Jesse W. Asher)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Question about pathalias output.
Message-ID: <450@dynasys.UUCP>
Date: 31 Aug 90 12:32:48 GMT
References: <344@dynasys.UUCP> <1990Aug28.195720.10793@motcad.portal.com>
Reply-To: jessea@dynasys.UUCP ()
Organization: Dynasys:  Consulting for the Future.
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In article <1990Aug28.195720.10793@motcad.portal.com>, jtc@motcad.portal.com (J.T. Conklin) wrote the following:
}Because pathalias computes routes based on the end-to-end costs of
}a route.  Pathalias is routing through the well connected site, as
}its costs to the rest of the known world are less than your other
}connections.
}>How can I get it to stop this behavior?
}Declare the cost to this site obscenely high.

I tried this.  It either routes everything through this site, or it
routes nothing through this site.  In the latter case, it routes everything
through other sites I'm connected to.  

}
}>Also, I would
}>like pathalias to look at the total cost from this site to the end site
}>instead of looking at just the connection to the next system.  Can I do
}>this?
}
}This is what its doing.

How can this be?  The cost listed is the same number for every connection.
The cost can't be the same to route to every site in the world.  That's
adsurd if it works that way.  Why is the cost listed in the final output
in the paths file the same for every site?

}Nothing wrong, but I don't find it necessary to cat everything into one 
}file.  I'd just run something like ``pathalias u.* d.* local.*'' and let
}shell wildcarding expand the map filenames into command line arguments
}for pathalias.

Thanx for the tip here.  That will save some time.