Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mailrus!b-tech!zeeff From: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Newsgroups: news.sysadmin Subject: Re: Stuck with .UUCP forever? Message-ID: <9415@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us> Date: 7 Jun 89 13:37:56 GMT References: <444@logicon.arpa> <1780@fig.bbn.com> <56966@uunet.UU.NET> Reply-To: zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us (Jon Zeeff) Organization: Branch Technology Ann Arbor, MI Lines: 25 >It's called pathalias and it works fine now. >The hard part is paying for the computer upgrades necessary to >handle a huge increase in the mail volume once the entire 60,000 machine >internet decides to route the mail through one site. > Let's say I create uucp.net and do name service for any *.uucp.net. I have some pathalias data that lists the route from various internet sites to individual uucp sites. I use this data for the MX request. Example: someone wants to send to foo.uucp.net. I find that rutgers talks to xxx which talks to foo. So rutgers gets the mail (it never arrives here). The net effect is that people can just use name.uucp.net if they are in the uucp maps without putting a huge load on one site. I'm not in favor of this, but it seems that it could be done. Something similar can be done now - try sending mail to user@any_uucp_name.uunet.net. It worked last time I tried it. -- Jon Zeeff zeeff@b-tech.ann-arbor.mi.us Ann Arbor, MI sharkey!b-tech!zeeff