Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!att!linac!linac!palkovic From: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail Subject: Re: *Long* bang paths Message-ID: Date: 3 Jan 91 03:34:02 GMT References: <16438@cs.utexas.edu> Sender: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John A. Palkovic) Reply-To: palkovic@linac.fnal.gov (John Palkovic, MS 341) Organization: Bob's School of Quantum Mechanics Lines: 28 In-Reply-To: fletcher@cs.utexas.edu's message of 3 Jan 91 03:47:27 GMT >>>>> On 3 Jan 91 03:47:27 GMT, fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) said: >[deleted] > 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". It did. It came back to linac in less than a minute. Thanks to "Rabid Rerouting" at osu. I knew that when I posted. Utacfd is utacfd.arl.utexas.edu on the inet. I have that in my pathtable. What I'd *really* like to do is teach sendmail to truncate to that point. Then everyone[*] is happy. |> News is not mail. Tell that to root@druwa.att.com. [*] Except anti re-routing zealots. -- palkovic@linac.fnal.gov "A Superconductor generates electricity without resistance when cooled." - Chicago Tribune, Oct. 21, 1990, A-18