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From: davidsen@sungod.crd.ge.com (William Davidsen)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: pathalias ignores fast Internet connections
Keywords: if else do
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Date: 12 Jun 89 18:54:36 GMT
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In article <3288@epimass.EPI.COM> jbuck@epimass.EPI.COM (Joe Buck) writes:

| This is not a flaw in the smail system; it's a flaw in the UUCP map
| data.  Specifically, since .berkeley.edu is an Internet domain,
| it should not be listed in the UUCP map, and neither should any
| host foo.berkeley.edu.  This would make the map smaller, and
| furthermore, smail will then generate the optimal route you describe,
| provided that you have the line
| 
| .edu	 uunet!%s
| 
| in your /usr/lib/uucp/paths.
| 
| Let's delete all domains that are on the Internet from the UUCP map.
| The map will get smaller and we'll actually generate better routes.

 Let's not get carried away here, sending from a machine on the west
coast all the way to uunet and then back via internet to Berkeley is not
usually the best way to do things. There should be a better way to get
to ucbvax than uunet, starting in CA.

  What we need is to change pathalias to reduct the cost of a transition
between nets, and thus generate better maps.
	bill davidsen		(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM)
  {uunet | philabs}!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen
"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me