dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) (01/18/91)
I have recently installed Smail3.1.19, and am very impressed with
its capabilities and flexibility. Unfortunately, there is one thing
that I am concerned about.
When given a destination of something like "uunet!joe!wow!fred", it
will look the address up in the pathalias maps and try and optimize
the path. Sometimes this is undesirable if a certain path is desired.
I am almost sure this is configurable, but I haven't found a
solution yet. Anyone have some tips?
Thanks...
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dean@coplex.UUCP Dean A. Brooks
Copper Electronics, Inc.
Louisville, Ky
UUCP: !uunet!coplex!deantron@Veritas.COM (Ronald S. Karr) (01/18/91)
In article <243@coplex.UUCP> dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) writes: > When given a destination of something like "uunet!joe!wow!fred", it >will look the address up in the pathalias maps and try and optimize >the path. Sometimes this is undesirable if a certain path is desired. Smail never optimizes paths (unless you have changed the sources). It only determines the shortest path to the first host in a path. However, as distributed it does check the paths file before it checks the set of uucp neighbors produced by the uuname command. As a result, if your paths file does not list a single hop to a neighboring host, then smail will not use it. The samples/bigsite directory contains examples of the use of the mkpaths utility, which can be used to create paths files that do directly send to neighbors. Alternately, you can switch the precedence of the paths and uucp_neighbors routers, by copying the samples/generic/routers file to /usr/lib/smail/routers, and editing out anything that is not appropriate for your site (i.e., the inet_addrs and inet_hosts routers for sites that are not on a TCP/IP network). -- tron |-<=>-| ARPAnet: veritas!tron@apple.com tron@veritas.com UUCPnet: {amdahl,apple,pyramid}!veritas!tron
chip@tct.uucp (Chip Salzenberg) (01/19/91)
According to dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks): > When given a destination of something like "uunet!joe!wow!fred", it >will look the address up in the pathalias maps and try and optimize >the path. Sometimes this is undesirable if a certain path is desired. Smail 3 only routes the first element in any bang path. -- Chip Salzenberg at Teltronics/TCT <chip@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!chip> "If Usenet exists, then what is its mailing address?" -- me "c/o The Daily Planet, Metropolis." -- Jeff Daiell