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- From: kevin@cfctech.cfc.com (Kevin Darcy)
- Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,comp.mail.sendmail
- Subject: Re: email routing
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.033749.4841@cfctech.cfc.com>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 03:37:49 GMT
- References: <Bxq13z.7rp@gator.rn.com>
- Organization: Chrysler Financial Corp., Southfield, MI
- Lines: 42
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- In article <Bxq13z.7rp@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >I'm running smail3 release 28
- >
- >I want to forward all internet traffic that's in
- >the DNS via smtp, local traffic via smtp and uux,
- >and all uucp non-local traffic via smtp to uunet.uu.net
- >to be routed.
- >
- >I am having one heck of a time getting this set up.
- >
- >any ideas?
-
- Let me get this straight -- you're live on the Internet, but you don't care to
- run pathalias yourself, so you'd rather just let Uunet handle the pathalias
- routing (I assume this is by mutual agreement)?
-
- Okay. First, compile in the BIND router support, if you don't have it already.
-
- Set up DNS for your local domain, and get the NIC to change their delegation
- of "rn.com" to your nameservers (you might want to get Uunet to run
- secondaries for your domain, in case your whole IP link goes down). Leave out
- MX records for machines in your domain which can be delivered to directly via
- SMTP -- they only need their A records listed; add MX records for machines in
- your local domain, which need to go via a non-SMTP route, pointing to whatever
- SMTP machine is "closest" to them, transport-wise. Lastly, point your
- smarthost to uunet.uu.net, with a transport of "smtp".
-
- So, your eventual routers file will look (abstractly) like
-
- BIND
- gethostbyaddr (if you want to handle domain literals)
- uuname
- smarthost (path "uunet.uu.net", transport "smtp")
-
- Simple, huh? :-)
-
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