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From: jbs@fenchurch.MIT.EDU (Jeff Siegal)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Rerouting of explicit paths
Message-ID: <8466@eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: 13 Mar 88 22:02:24 GMT
References: <701@l.cc.purdue.edu> <1642@uhccux.UUCP> <479@minya.UUCP>
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In article <479@minya.UUCP> jc@minya.UUCP (John Chambers) writes:
>Around here, we have a lot of very similar problems with mail that
>stops off at harvard.  I get lots of mail that came to me via paths
>like ...!harvard!mit-eddie!harvard!foo!harvard!bar!adelie!minya!jc.
>The nice thing here is to note that mit-eddie!minya is a uucp link.
                                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>The map entries show both that link and adelie!minya to be DAILY, [...]
                                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is the source of the confusion.  Although the minya map entry
lists

minya	adelie(DAILY) 

and

minya	mit-eddie(DAILY)

this data is only relevant for mail going _from_ minya _to_ adelie or
mit-eddie.  For mail going the other direction (i.e. to minya), only
map entries with minya on the _right_ side have are relevant effect.

But here is the real problem.  The adelie map entry lists:

adelie	minya(HOURLY)

Does adelie really talk to minya every hour?  If so, the mit-eddie
routing through harvard and adelie is correct.  If not, the adelie map
entry should be updated to reflect correct information.

Jeff Siegal