[comp.mail.sendmail] confusion about path to hpfcse

kane@steinmetz.ge.com (Joseph Kane) (10/31/88)

 At our site we unpack the uucp maps nightly and rebuild the 
pathalias data base weekly. I recently noticed however that:


Our path to hplabs is:  uunet!hplabs!username
and
Our path to hpfcse is:  rochester!rutgers!hplabs!hpcea!hpfcla!hpfcse!username



 Can anyone suggest as to why the path to hpfcse isn't through

uunet since our path to hplabs is through uunet ?



                                           thanks

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lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) (11/01/88)

In article <12491@steinmetz.ge.com> kane@steinmetz.ge.com (Joseph Kane) writes:
>Our path to hplabs is:  uunet!hplabs!username
>and
>Our path to hpfcse is:  rochester!rutgers!hplabs!hpcea!hpfcla!hpfcse!username
>
> Can anyone suggest as to why the path to hpfcse isn't through
>uunet since our path to hplabs is through uunet ?

Because uunet lists hplabs as a terminal domain.  They list a lot of Internet
sites this way.  Technically, it is ok for them to send mail directly to
hplabs (i.e. uucp->internet->internet), but it is illegal to send it over
the internet if the final destination is off of it (i.e. uucp->internet->
internet->uucp).
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Larry Blair   ames!vsi1!lmb   lmb%vsi1.uucp@ames.arc.nasa.gov