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Please don't direct followups to news.admin.misc.... this is not a new
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the net yet.

clewis@ferret.ocunix.on.ca (Chris Lewis) writes:

> uunet	... <{sitename}>({cost})
> The angle brackets indicate that nothing should be routed *through*
> "sitename" to other machines.

> Furthermore, you shouldn't advertise the uunet link in *your* map entry
> at all.  Otherwise, large numbers of systems may choose you to get to
> uunet.

It would be better to advertise the link but make it really expensive.  If
you don't advertise it, it's not clear if the 1-way path is a mistake, or
what.  Some map coordinators insist on bidirectional links.  If you declare
it instead as

yoursite uunet(52*WEEKLY)

it makes things a lot clearer, and the mailers will still never choose to
route through it.

Actually, if a system has no other path to UUNET except through yoursite,
it will route through you, but this would happen anyway.  If the maps
declare an a->b link but no b->a link, pathalias will assume there's a link
with cost DEAD, and use it if there's no other alternative.

52*WEEKLY is close enough to DEAD to make no difference.

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