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- From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
- Subject: Re: smail3 release 28 force-route
- Message-ID: <Bx99Jt.2DK@chinet.chi.il.us>
- Organization: Chinet - Public Access UNIX
- References: <Bx59A9.BIs@gator.rn.com>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 18:19:03 GMT
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- In article <Bx59A9.BIs@gator.rn.com> larry@gator.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes:
- >I am running the latest release of smail3
- >all connections are uucp
- >how can I force the rerouting of all traffic based
- >on my paths database?
-
- Smail3.28 has a rerouting driver. Read the comments in routers/reroute.c
- (and the warnings against using the "matchall" attribute). If you
- don't set matchall you must prepare a database of domain and site names
- with an indication of whether to reroute for that name or not. The
- given path is scanned backwards until a site with a re-reroute indication
- is found and then anything to the left is discarded and the remaining
- portion is reparsed by smail's routers. Even if you are against
- rerouting in general you can use this technique to temporarily correct
- temporary problems or you can set the "bounceonly" attibute to
- allow it to fix the return path on error bounces. For example if you
- have a "smart_user" host whose alias file is out of sync with another
- machine's users, the two will bounce mail back and forth until the
- Received: line count exceeds the maximum. Without the rerouting
- driver the bounce message will follow the same 20-hop path back and forth
- to the sender.
-
- Les Mikesell
- les@chinet.chi.il.us
-