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From: bob@stl.olivetti.com (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Maps have bad costs, typically
Keywords: pathalias, mail, maps
Message-ID: <1087@stl.olivetti.com>
Date: 8 Nov 88 18:52:07 GMT
Organization: Olivetti Software Technology Laboratory, Palo Alto, CA
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Many of the UUCP maps I see coming in seem to have incorrect costs for
domain gateways.  Typical pathalias input looks like

foohost	= foo.bar.com 
foohost	.foo.bar.com

This assigns a pathalias cost of 4000 to this gateway, since 4000 is
the the default cost in pathalias.  4000 is almost equal to a cost of
DAILY.  Since in many cases foohost *is* foo.bar.com, this cost should
be near zero, for example

foohost	.foo.bar.com(LOCAL)

should it not?  Or am I missing something here?

-- 
Bob Weissman
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