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From: wes@obie.UUCP (Barnacle Wes)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: foo   .bar.com(LOCAL) in pathalias.
Summary: There *IS* another way...
Keywords: pathalias
Message-ID: <211@obie.UUCP>
Date: 7 Oct 88 04:09:18 GMT
References: <1005@fai.UUCP> <2164@stpstn.UUCP>
Organization: the Well of Souls
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In article <2164@stpstn.UUCP>, aad@stpstn.UUCP (Anthony A. Datri) writes:
> There are several lines of my pathalias output that I know better
> (geographically, at least) paths for, and after attempting various
> more "elegant" methods, I just have my pathalias script that runs nightly
> pipe the output through sed, replacing the desired lines.  Ugly, but
> it works.

Another, perhaps slightly more elegant :-) way to do this is to have the
sed script lower the cost on the links you want to use to some
(ridiculously) low value.  Obie, myth, and wsccs all use this to force
certain paths that sp7040 allows us to use, but does not broadcast to
the net.at.large :-).

Nightly pathalias runs, huh?  Must be nice having a machine with lots of
processor time and i/o bandwidth and such.  I haven't managed to get
pathalias to run on obie yet, and it takes quite a while to run on wsccs
(on the order of 20 minutes for pathalias | pathproc :-).
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