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From: oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: More routing question information
Message-ID: <1990Dec30.194331.16965@vmp.com>
Date: 30 Dec 90 19:43:31 GMT
References: <1990Dec29.182422.8788@kithrup.COM>
Organization: Video Marketing & Publications, Inc., Oradell, NJ
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In article <1990Dec29.182422.8788@kithrup.COM> sef@kithrup.com (Sean Eric Fagan) writes:
>All but a handful of my outgoing mail goes through ucscc.  Since I'm running
>mmdf, I have things set up very nicely (i.e., I don't run pathalias).  The
>problem is people who mail to *me*.  If they are running pathalias, the mail
>gets routed through the sco somehow, not ucscc (which is about 8 times
>quicker).  *uunet* routes mail to kithrup.uucp through sco, instead of uucp.

Most sites that run pathalias do so with just the UUCP maps as
input.  However, pathalias is distributed with the tools to include
all Internet sites as well.

Here we feed a copy of HOSTS.TXT (from nic.ddn.mil) into arpatxt
(supplied with the pathalias distribution) to create what we call
"d.Internet".  When we run this plus the UUCP maps through pathalias,
the entry for kithrup becomes:

kithrup	uupsi!ucscc.ucsc.edu!kithrup!%s

which is exactly what he wants.  Any mail being generated on Internet
sites or which passes through rabidly rerouting Internet sites or which
is generated on sites that reasonably include the Internet sites in
their pathalias databases will follow this route.

I must admit that I'm surprised that UUNET doesn't route via the
Internet.



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Orlan Cannon                            oc@vmp.com
Video Marketing & Publications, Inc.    (800) 627-4551
Oradell, NJ 07649