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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: More routing question information
Message-ID: <1990Dec31.220913.1708@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 31 Dec 90 22:09:13 GMT
References: <1990Dec29.182422.8788@kithrup.COM> <1990Dec30.194331.16965@vmp.com>
Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
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In article <1990Dec30.194331.16965@vmp.com> oc@vmp.com (Orlan Cannon) writes:

>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

But, this requires the sending site (or the smart-host doing the lookup)
to make this non-standard step.  So it's not going to help unless everyone
does it.

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

Why?  They get paid for the uucp connect time and for the people they
care about (direct-connect uucp paying customers) sending direct is likely
to be faster.  

Les Mikesell
  les@chinet.chi.il.us