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- From: dmpm%dukemc.bitnet@ymir.claremont.edu (James Dryfoos- Postmaster)
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- Subject: Very large alias and reverse databases?
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 19:00:34 GMT
- Organization: Duke University Medical Center, Durham NC, USA
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- Will PMDF handle an alias and reversal database starting
- at about 5,000 entries and possibly growing to 20,000?
-
- What kind of problems might I run into?
-
- What we are trying to do is allow everyone at the Medical Center
- to have a single id in the form of id@mc.duke.edu
- As most users are not on the PMDF node (not even a VMS system),
- I want to rewrite the outgoing address into the normalized form using
- the reverse databse and then use the alias to direct it to
- the appropriate channel. For example,
-
- Outgoing: user%node@mc.duke.edu becomes id@mc.duke.edu
- Incoming: id@mc.duke.edu user%node@channel
-
- If there is a better way of doing this I would not mind hearing it.
- We already maintain the databse needed to generate this info and
- in fact already perform the equiv of the above. We however want to
- move it to PMDF if possible.
-
- -Jim
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