Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!uhnix1!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs Message-ID: Date: 29 Aug 90 17:31:16 GMT References: <5IA5TY9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <3890@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> <3932@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 41 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) In article fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes: > I've been trying this, and it doesn't work too well. We do this internally for our internal internet (some 40 machines running 2 variants of OSI and TCP/IP) and it works fine. We have: opennet = { xds1 xds2 xds3 ... ris0 ris1 ... } (LOCAL) xds1 = xds1.ferranti.com xds2 = xds2.ferranti.com ... (this is generated automatically from /usr/lib/smail/nodes) > internet.site internet(LOCAL) > another.site internet(LOCAL) I don't see why. This will be ignored if you have the costs right. > I think that it's necessary to crunch the pathalias output rather than > adding stuff to the input to get this done right. No, because *if* you crunch the pathalias output you are guaranteed to get this done wrong. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U` peter@ferranti.com