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From: joe@cbnews.att.com (Joseph Judge)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Convincing Smail to use FQDNs
Summary: internet "network" for pathalias
Message-ID: <1990Aug30.152241.28240@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 30 Aug 90 15:22:41 GMT
References: <5IA5TY9@ggpc2.ferranti.com> <3890@ralph.Lafayette.LA.US> <as2jn2.1b3@wang.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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	We have an INTERNET host, so I want pathalias to *use* it.

	All I can think of is grabbing all the alias records in the
	maps and change the: name = name.alias 
	and make it: our_host name.alias (some_low_cost)

	What I need is a better way to "know" which machines in the maps
	are actually accessible from the INTERNET (better than the 
	preprocessing I am doing).
	
	Peter, Tom, how do you get these "lists" of hosts to put
	into your "INTERNET = { ...}" or "site internet(local)" records?


	Joseph Judge		postmaster@ATT.COM




	This all would be sent in with the rest of the records.
In article <as2jn2.1b3@wang.com>, fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:
> 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)
> ...
> 
> I think that it's necessary to crunch the pathalias output rather than
> adding stuff to the input to get this done right.
>