Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!izimbra!dsc
From: dsc@izimbra.CSS.GOV (where was george?)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Setting up Internet domains and UUCP maps
Summary: it's a pain to be on the internet as deal with domains in the maps
Keywords: domain internet mail map mx pathalias
Message-ID: <24782@uunet.UU.NET>
Date: 25 Aug 88 18:05:53 GMT
References: <70@volition.dec.com> <71@volition.dec.com> <118@jetson.UPMA.MD.US> <84@volition.dec.com> <23627@hi.unm.edu>
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In article <23627@hi.unm.edu> kurt@hi.unm.edu (Kurt Zeilenga) writes:
>maps already provide adequate mechanism for forwarding registered Internet
>domains (directly attached or not) and appearance in maps will only
>cause mail to be routed completely though UUCP instead of taking a
>"short-cut" across the Internet. 
>
>For example, GURU.COM does NOT appear in the maps and UUCP sites deliver
>mail thru a UUCP-INTERNET gateway.  .UNM.EDU, which does appear in the
>maps, gets its mail routed in via SLOW UUCP connections even though we
>are directly on Internet.  I am attempting to get UNM to delete all

ah, the old what's a poor internet host that handles pathalias output
supposed to do problem? :-) on seismo & uunet, we have a shell script
that removes all the paths for domains and fully qualified hosts out of
the output of pathalias, except for those that we are the primary
server for.  (an aside ... we have been using `sed' for this filtering
except recently on uunet this scheme failed because we are the primary
for almost a hunderd domains now and we bumped into a hard coded limit
on the number of patterns.  clearly a better method is needed :-) i
believe peter (that is honeyman from dwon!honey) has another scheme he
uses to filter out domains & hosts reachable via smtp as do most of the
other postmasters on machines in this situation.  if you aren't using
the pathalias database for routing of domains at all, then just keep
the simple names and that should do the trick.

dsc