Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!edsews!roberts
From: roberts@edsews.EDS.COM (Ted Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: active rerouting
Summary: uucp style forwarding shouldn't change
Message-ID: <2105@edsews.EDS.COM>
Date: 15 Sep 88 17:07:37 GMT
References: <4740@b-tech.UUCP> <4747@b-tech.UUCP> <4748@b-tech.UUCP> <6581@chinet.UUCP>
Organization: EDS/TSD - Troy, MI
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In article <6581@chinet.UUCP>, les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
> 
> Suppose
> you want siteC to route  siteA!siteB!siteC!domain.dom!user or
> siteA!siteB!siteC!user@domain.dom.

These are not the same thing.  The first route would send to siteA, then
siteB, then siteC and siteC would route to user@domain.dom which they
would know how to do since they know how to resolve domain addresses
(you hope:-).  The second would attempt to send to domain.dom, then to
siteA, then to siteB, then to site C, then to user.  This is because the
"@" syntax takes precedence over the "!" syntax.

>  SiteA is your uucp neighbor which
> you would obviously know about.  Doesn't this depend on siteB also
> using uucp style forwarding which could easily change without your
> knowledge since it is not a direct contact?

Maybe I don't understand what you mean here, but if you're saying that
they will all of a sudden and without warning start trashing routes that
use the "!" syntax then the answer is no.  I'm not sure what you mean by
"uucp style forwarding", do you mean versus being directly on the internet?
If so, I would assume that they would also be able to handle that syntax.

-- 
Ted Roberts                         |  My opinions are not necessarily those
EDS Technical Services Division     |  of my employer.  Does that mean I'm
UUCP: roberts@edsews.EDS.COM        |  wrong?