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   From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
   Date: 14 Jul 89 21:22:44 GMT

   In article <KARL.89Jul13215059@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu>,
     karl@dinosaur.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste) writes about two rabid
     rerouters routing through each other.

   I wish I still had the message, but it was some time ago... you'll have to
   take my word for it. I seem to recall that one of the participants was at
   athena.mit.edu, and I don't recall where the other was, but it was another
   university.

If one of the participants was at athena.mit.edu, then you had a
different problem.  athena.mit.edu does not reroute, whether actively or
passively; it does not use pathalias, smail, or homegrown hacks of its
own.  In fact, last time I talked to Ron Hoffman, who is
postmaster@athena.mit.edu, it wasn't even running an MX-speaking
sendmail.

bloom-beacon.mit.edu, which is the news server for MIT Project Athena,
DOES passively reroute (given an address of the form user@host.uucp, it
will look up host.uucp in the maps and route it appropriately), but it
is not, and never has been, an active rerouter.


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