Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!rel!bob
From: bob@rel.eds.com (Bob Leffler)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: How do I get my *Y$**()!!! mailer to route to mcvax?
Summary: bounced mail
Keywords: alice, "smart" mailers
Message-ID: <1097@rel.eds.com>
Date: 9 Jun 88 18:34:42 GMT
References: <4886@dasys1.UUCP>
Organization: Electronic Data Systems, Troy, MI
Lines: 25

In article <4886@dasys1.UUCP>, wlinden@dasys1.UUCP (William Linden) writes:
> I tried to respond to a letter from u63.bath.ac.uk. The system mailer
> routed it from dasys1 through... princeton!alice!i2unix... and alice
> bounced it. The second time I tried using the explicit path hoptoad!
> amdahl!uunet!mcvax!..., but the "smart" mailer sent it on the same
> path through princeton!alice... and it bounced again. How do I get the

I've haven't checked the maps,  but I can speculate on the cause of the
problem.  If you look at the u.ita.1 map you'll notice that i2unix lists
all there nodes on their LAN in the map entry.  The reason I noticed was 
that there was a confliction with a node in Michigan and a node on their
LAN having the same name.  It's proably a safe bet that they have an alice
on their LAN.

pathalias assumes that both alice's are one and the same, which explains
the bounced mail.

bob



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