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- From: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr (Christophe Wolfhugel)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
- Subject: Re: Are costs relevant ? (was Re: UUCP map entries)
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 13:29:49 +0100
- Organization: INSA Informatique (Grasp), Lyon, France
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- clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:
-
- wolf> [ks.UUCP at IBM Austin]
-
- cl> Try sending mail to the postmasters, my experience is that it often
- cl> helps to unjam links, or at least to get the map entries fixed.
-
- I did ! Still waiting for a reply... Just wondering if they read the
- mail. Other users from other sites also having trouble due to this map
- entry also did... still waiting for an answer.
-
- What is the next action to take ? Shall the map coordinator for the
- region be contacted to inform him of the trouble and eventually take
- the entry out of the map, or is this out of his attributions ?
-
- The more I send mail to .UUCP domain the more I see trouble, every day
- new links who can't handle what they indicate for several reasons
- (going from the mailer unable to handle UUCP to those who have
- just misconfigured their local name).
-
- My list of "dead {site}" is growing daily. The one published in the
- maps not.
-
- Well all this, also arrives to what you indicate in the Unix Email
- software FAQ: use domains.
-
- > On the other hand, I often find it more reliable to only run with
- > local maps (eg: province or state), and select a well administered
- > machine as smart-host. I get virtually no bounces from mnie.
-
- That is definitely the solution for sites, but when I see the top-level
- domains aliases in the maps and more and more sites who have one
- unique UUCP connection using them in without filtering anything, it's
- just stupid.
-
- The shortest way from an Internet host to my machine is following the MX
- routing, but when just one node before a site has digested the maps
- it generates a folkoric route...
-
- > The *real* problem is SAs not keeping their maps up to date.
-
- Nor (for lots of them) knowing how to use the maps in an efficient and
- workable manner.
-
- So what to do... Would map coordinators like to give their opinions ?
- What are the policies they use about entries with wrong or non working
- links ?
-
- --
- Christophe Wolfhugel | Email: Christophe.Wolfhugel@grasp.insa-lyon.fr
- "Pour le bien-etre de tous, il est interdit de pisser dans le metro."
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