Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!mp.cs.niu.edu!rickert From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Going from Internet to UUCP Message-ID: <1990Nov25.010035.3765@mp.cs.niu.edu> Date: 25 Nov 90 01:00:35 GMT References: <112387@uunet.UU.NET> <2dqjg2.8$2@smurf.sub.org> Organization: Northern Illinois University Lines: 24 In article <2dqjg2.8$2@smurf.sub.org> urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) writes: >Since there are no MXes for .UUCP, you can do either >- randomly select one of the Internet->UUCP gateways which are advertised in >(...) > >Have I omitted anything? > Sure you have. Find (by grepping through the maps) a number of Internet sites with many UUCP connections. Generate a 'u.LOCAL' file which pretends that you have a local uucp connection to each of them. Then run pathalias on the map. It will generate a collection of paths of the form full.domain.name!uuhost!...!%s . If you prefer to convert these to the form uuhost!...!%s@full.domain.name a simple sed script will do. I takes some time to generate the initial list of internet sites, and to test them with a nameserver lookup to be sure they have an A-record and are not merely MX domains. But once done the same list will last for a long time. -- =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science Northern Illinois Univ. DeKalb, IL 60115. +1-815-753-6940