Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!exodus!mhtsa!mh3bs!eagle!harpo!decvax!decwrl!daemon From: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Smart routing Message-ID: <5524@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Wed, 8-Feb-84 09:05:12 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.5524 Posted: Wed Feb 8 09:05:12 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 10-Feb-84 02:33:18 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 18 From: castor::covert (John Covert) Of course we want smart routing on the uucp network. But is it smart to strip off pathnames that were explicitly specified when no domains are present in the address? Unless each machine that does name-stripping knows the domain space of each node-name it strips off, misrouting can occur if gateways have been crossed. How else can a name-stripper know which of the two nodes named vortex is the real destination? Smart routing should be truly smart, and not sophomoric. If the next node specified in the path is not a communicating site, then a path-aliasing can be done. Otherwise the specified path should be taken. Once domains are fully implemented then smarter things can be done. Until then, the path contains information which is dangerous to remove. John Covert ...{ucbvax,allegra,decvax}!decwrl!rhea!castor!covert