WANCHO@SIMTEL20.ARPA.UUCP (05/12/87)
Thanks to all who responded, and to Mike Muuss with the "correct" answer: to insert the two lines for the default gateways (nominally the "mailbridge homing" gateway hosts) with the destination field of "0". This was NOT mentioned in *any* documentation we have. This class of missing information is exactly the sort of thing I would like to see published in an online document available to any newly ordained system administrator and network liaison. Let's call it the Internet Systems Administrator's Handbook: a collection of hints, tips, and common sense security items (yours and the network community) for operating in the Internet environment. If such a document existed, we would have known not to run routed and *why*. If you already have such a document in your local community, or have material to submit toward the compilation of such a document, maybe the NIC would be interested in collecting and organizing it... --Frank