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From: nomad@verdix.com (Lee Damon)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Short-circuiting bang paths
Message-ID: <348@verdix.verdix.com>
Date: 4 May 89 17:16:59 GMT
References: <3048@tank.uchicago.edu> <3144@ncar.ucar.edu>
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In article <3144@ncar.ucar.edu> woods@handies.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) writes:
>In article <3048@tank.uchicago.edu> matt@oddjob.uchicago.edu (Matt Crawford) writes:
>>                                               [...] I could counter-
>>argue that the mail exchanger for the target site was poorly chosen if
>>my own site is closer to the target than the exchanger is.
>
>                        [...] there is an MX record out there that points
>*.fidonet.org to my machine. The only service I perform for Fidonet is
>to convert domain addresses to bang paths. [...] This means someone mails to
>user@whatever.fidonet.org, my mailer converts this to a bang path to the
>appropriate UUCP-to-Fido gateway (found from UUCP map data), and mails
>it out. From what I can see, there are over a dozen such gateways, [...]

There are over 25 and more on the way.  As we have it set up now, if a
gateway has a friendly local (or semi-local) internet site willing
to gateway for them, I point a MX record at that site and it overrides
the *.fidonet.org (lcd as it were) MX. If they don't have a local gateway,
then the default one pointing at ncar is used.

Of course, I'm always looking for internet sites willing to act as
forwarders - it makes things work faster and lowers the load on ncar. If
you have such a site, and are willing to help, please contact me!

nomad
hostmaster, fidonet.org
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