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From: del@thrush.mlb.semi.harris.com (Don Lewis)
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Subject: Re: "Path"
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Date: 23 Oct 90 19:53:41 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.152106.15465@wdl1.wdl.fac.com> wrl@wdl1.wdl.fac.com (Bill Lewandowski) writes:
>Don Lewis was right that my problem is I dont use fully qualified
>names and thus my return paths get screwwed up. Now, the return path should not
>be used for replies via mail but some systems seem to use them.

The Path: is also used to prevent articles from being sent through sites
that they have already been sent through.  For example, there is a well
known site called "mintaka".  We have a local host called "mintaka".  Before
I patched mini-inews to put the fully qualified host name in the Path:,
articles submitted by a user on our mintaka, would not be sent to the
well known mintaka because its neighbors saw "mintaka" in the Path: and
thought that the article had already passed through there.

>
>I guess I have to live with my unqualified names because we are not going to
>redo our YP in 6 domains and over 300 hosts.

If you are running DNS and YP (using makedbm -b), you can just link
mini-inews with -lresolv if you have an /etc/resolv.conf on each host.
Otherwise, you can fix mini-inews with the patch I posted earlier which
tacks on the #define'd domain name if none is present.
-- 
Don "Truck" Lewis                      Harris Semiconductor
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