evan@ndcheg.UUCP (Evan Bauman) (03/24/88)
Notre Dame will soon be joining the NSFnet, so we're attempting to teach sendmail how to deliver mail via SMTP to remote sites. Our routing strategy is this: 1) handle all local mail 2) if the site is in /etc/hosts, deliver via SMTP 3) all the rest of the addresses are fed into smail/pathalias for routing. We have steps 1 and 3 working. Our last problem lies in determining if the address is in /etc/hosts (or its yellow pages equivalent). BTW, we don't have a name-server hosts here yet, but I don't think it would matter. From what I can tell, sendmail parses everything on the right side of the '@' into individual components; i.e. user @ "site" "." "site" "." "site" "." "domain" If any of the individual "site"s are in /etc/hosts, then the mail is properly routed via SMTP. But there's going to be a multitude of entries with the format 200.200.200.200 a.b.c.edu and not 200.200.200.200 sitename so sendmail doesn't see that the RHS of the '@' is equivalent to anything in /etc/hosts. This results in the address being sent on to smail/pathalias which is OK, but not the best use of our resources. It's also a waste of resources at places such as rutgers. (incentive for rutgers people to lend a hand!) If anyone's figured out a solution for this, we'd be glad to know. Thanks in advance. Evan Bauman Univ. of Notre Dame ..!iuvax!ndcheg!evan (219)-239-5699 -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- This message has been sponsored by Powdermilk Biscuits in the big blue box. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------