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From: jbs@eddie.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
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Subject: Re: maps and cost
Message-ID: <7182@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 11:53:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 11:53:06 1987
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In article <771@cblpf.ATT.COM> gws2@cblpf.ATT.COM (x5965) writes:
>[...]
>			D talks to A	A Doesn't talk to D (according to maps)
>
>Pathalias says that the shortest path from A to D is A!B!C!D
>Why? Dosent pathalias take into effect that D talks to A???

It will use the reverse link (A-->D), but only if there is no other
possible path.  If you want mail to be routed over a link in a
particular direction, you need to list that as a path in the map.

Jeff Siegal