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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 02:23:15 GMT
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- From: "Kevin V. Carosso" <KVC@SUMMER.INNOSOFT.COM>
- Subject: RE: Relegating BitNet to 2nd-class transport
- Newsgroups: bit.listserv.pmdf-l
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- > We currently run with psulias.bitnet as our local host alias; we have both JNE
- T
- > for BITNET access and Multinet for SMTP/Internet access. We've been asked to
- > combine with all other nodes within the university and use Internet, not
- > BitNet, as the preferred interface. That is, change our local host alias to
- > psulias.psu.edu, but then some.... If a node is not suffixed by a domain
- > specification, we want it to default to .psu.edu, making it required that any
- > BitNet Email have the pseudo-domain specification of .BITNET on it in order to
- > not be mapped to a local (and probably non-existant) Penn State node.
- >
- > What's the simplest way to do this? What of the things we're doing now (e.g.,
- > processing Bitnet XMAILER.NAMES files every month, would change?
-
- Nothing special. If you run CONFIGURE.COM and tell it you are on Internet and
- BITNET and use your Internet hostname for the official local host then this is
- exactly the configuration you will get. After all, nothing unusual here, this
- is what most Internet+BITNET sites want.
-
- CONFIGURE also asks if you want a default domain appended to TCP/IP host names
- which can make shortform names default to .PSU.EDU. Finally, PMDF knows about
- all BITNET nodes and will not confuse them with local shortform host names.
-
- Both the HOST and HOST.BITNET forms will continue to work. This is part of
- the reason why PMDF uses XMAILER.NAMES. If you want to make .BITNET required
- so that USER@HOST can never be directed to a BITNET host even if there
- is one named "HOST" then you can easily do that as well (but it isn't the
- default). To do this, run CONFIGURE, answer the questions as I outlined
- above (taking the defaults to nearly all questions will get you what you're
- looking for) but say "NO" when it asks if BITNET_DOMAINS should be run "now".
- Once CONFIGURE finishes, edit PMDF_ROOT:[TABLE]BITNET_DOMAINS_DRIVER.COM and
- add a parameter setting:
-
- $ BITNET_LOCAL_CHANNELS == "bit_local/bit_gateway"
-
- This makes BITNET shortform names valid only on the channels that handle
- incoming BITNET messages, where shortform names must be recognized.
- Messages originating on any other channel will require the .BITNET suffix.
-
- /Kevin Carosso
- Innosoft
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