Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!aplcen!uunet!wang!fitz From: fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs Message-ID: Date: 28 Aug 90 02:16:09 GMT References: <5IA5TY9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <3890@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> <3932@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> Organization: Wang Labs, Lowell MA, USA Lines: 32 > 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. peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > So add another "u." file, that just does this: > internet = { > list the sites you know to be on the internet here > } (LOCAL) I've been trying this, and it doesn't work too well. I'm not sure what the reason is - I just gave up when I ran into problems. First of all, this isn't enough. You may also need: internet.site internet(LOCAL) another.site internet(LOCAL) ... for each machine you might be using to inject stuff into the Internet. Other problems are caused by sites which describe themselves in the UUCP maps in nonstandard ways. Even when it works right, it often causes mail to take a different path than it would have. I'd like to have a technique that just removes unnecessary hops from the paths, but doesn't force any machine to deal with mail that it wouldn't have gotten anyway, and messing with the pathalias input sometimes has this effect. I think that it's necessary to crunch the pathalias output rather than adding stuff to the input to get this done right. --- Tom Fitzgerald Wang Labs fitz@wang.com 1-508-967-5278 Lowell MA, USA ...!uunet!wang!fitz