Path: utzoo!lsuc!ncrcan!ontenv!soley
From: soley@ontenv.UUCP (Norman S. Soley)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias: terminal nodes and domain gateways
Message-ID: <724@ontenv.UUCP>
Date: 28 Aug 88 17:46:43 GMT
References: <114@jetson.UPMA.MD.US>
Organization: Ontario Ministry of the Environment, Toronto
Lines: 43

In article <114@jetson.UPMA.MD.US>, john@jetson.UPMA.MD.US (John Owens) writes:
| I've run into an interesting anomaly between pathalias and smail (and
| possibly other pathalias-using routers).
| 
| When smail [2.5] decides to route to user@domain.org, it checks for routes in
| the following order:
| 	.domain.org
| 	domain.org
| 	.org
| 	org
| 	smart-host (if defined to)

[After some supporting exapmles to support it he makes the following
statement]
  
| In other words, it should only look for
| 	domain.org			(giving route!user)
| 	.domain.org			(giving route!domain.org!user)
| 	.org				(giving route!domain.org!user)
| 	smart-host			(giving route!domain.org!user)
| when routing user@domain.org and for
| 	sub.domain.org			(route!user)
| 	.sub.domain.org			(route!sub.domain.org!user)
| 	.domain.org			(route!sub.domain.org!user)
| 	.org				(route!sub.domain.org!user)
| 	smart-host			(route!sub.domain.org!user)
| for user@sub.domain.org.
|
| I'd appreciate comments on this.  What's the state of smail 3.0?
| What other pathalias-using routers do this?  Do any do it the way I
| suggested above?

This bounced around the info-smail mailing list and one of the smail3.1
developers posted a diagnostic trace which shows that the order is now
correct (i.e. in smail3.X). 

The info-smail list (which should really be called info-smail3 or some
such) can be reached at info-smail-request@uts.amdahl.com

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Norman Soley - Data Communications Analyst - Ontario Ministry of the Environment
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