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From: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: *Long* bang paths
Message-ID: <16438@cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 3 Jan 91 03:47:27 GMT
References: <L1P2F_@linac.fnal.gov>
Organization: Dept of Computer Sciences, UTexas, Austin
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John Palkovic writes:

>Dec 31 12:26:33 linac sendmail[25649]: AA25647: to=pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!\
>	zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!cs.utexas.edu!evax!utacfd!merch!\
>	cpe!hal6000!trsvax!user2, delay=00:00:05, stat=Sent
>

If you short circuit this particular bang path to the rightmost FQDN,
please be aware the effort is doomed.  Cs.utexas.edu has no UUCP peer
named "evax", nor do I see such a host in the UUCP maps.  So it will 
fail here with "unknown host".

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