dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) (02/11/89)
I have uuhosts up and running, and when I do a 'uuhosts -f' to get the full path entry for a host, it usually prints something like: UUCP mail information for host lakart: #Name lakart #System-CPU-OS Integrated Solutions V24; Motorola 68020; Berkeley 4.3 UNIX #Organization Lakart Corporation, Newton, MA #Contact David Goodenough #Electronic-Address lakart!dg #Telephone +1 617 244 6881 #Postal-Address 287 Grove Street, Newton, MA, 02166 #Latitude-Longitude 42 21 N / 71 08 W #Remarks #Written-by lakart!dg (David Goodenough); Mon Oct 3 11:24:26 EDT 1988 #USENET cfisun # lakart xait(DAILY), cfisun(DAILY), mirror(DAILY), pallio(DAILY) which is all well and good. But a number of hosts have a #F field (ames for example), which uuhosts and the mapping README file don't know about. What is this #F field? UUCP mail information for host ames: #Name .nasa.gov, ames #F ames.arc.nasa.gov <<<<<<<<<<<<< #System-CPU-OS ISI/68020; 4.3BSD #Organization NASA Ames Research Center etc. etc. etc. It strikes me that my version of uuhosts is a little lacking in knowledge, I'd like to fix it. Comments anyone? -- dg@lakart.UUCP - David Goodenough +---+ IHS | +-+-+ ....... !harvard!xait!lakart!dg +-+-+ | AKA: dg%lakart.uucp@xait.xerox.com +---+
emv@a.cc.umich.edu (Ed Vielmetti) (02/14/89)
In article <418@lakart.UUCP> dg@lakart.UUCP (David Goodenough) writes: >What is this #F field? #F is the internet forwarder if you have a domain name. The #F host provides an MX record and either forwards MX'd mail directly or routes it to you appropriately. No software that I am aware of uses the #F line for anything real, but if you're hunting for a friendly internet site to help you get a domain name grepping for #F lines can be useful. -- Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan