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- #N castle, .n134.z1.fidonet.org
- #S IBM PC; PC-DOS 3.1
- #O private - FidoNet
- #C Lee V. Damon
- #E castle!postmaster
- #T +1 503 629 9491
- #P 18200 NW Heritage Pkwy, #73, Beaverton, OR 97006
- #L 45 31 52 N / 122 52 47 W city
- #U verdix
- #R Fido 1:105/302 running UFGATE, FIDONET hostmaster home site.
- #W castle!fidohost (Lee V. Damon) ; Fri Aug 05 19:33:17 PDT 1988
- #
- # this is a FidoNet <-> UUCP/Internet gateway site serving the Pacific
- # NorthWest. (All of FidoNet RGN 17)
- #
- castle .n134.z1.fidonet.org
- castle= castle.fidonet.org, f302.n105.z1.fidonet.org
- castle verdix(DAILY), agora(DAILY), orstcs(POLLED)
-
- -----------cut here and save the above---------------
- "Simple" steps to making a UUCP Map.
- 1) Save the above file, then call up a pure text editor on it.
- 2) Change all occerences of the word castle to the name of your
- system. Leave the fidonet.org alone. The stuff on the #N
- line tells human readers that you are gatewaying to that domain.
- 3) The #S line calls for your CPU type and the OS that you are running,
- separated by a semi-colon.
- 4) The #O line should reflect the name of your organization or sponsoring
- company/club/etc.
- 5) #C is the name of the SysOp of the BBS.
- 6) All nodes are required to have a postmaster mail alias. Follow step 2
- on the "castle" but leave the rest. Make sure you have an alias for
- postmaster on your system. This is a UUCP and Internet requirement, not
- one of my own manufacture. It is required by RFC821.
- 7) #T is the *voice* number for the person in #C, or the main voice line for
- #O in international format.
- 8) #P is the postal address of #O or #C. Don't include the string from #O
- again; The #O and #P fields are intended to be concatenated.
- 9) This is probably the hardest. It is the latitude and longitude of the
- site in degrees, minutes and (optionally) seconds, followed by a
- letter indicating East/West (Longitude) or North/South (Latitude).
- It can probably be obtained from a local library or university. The
- "city" at the end there means that the figures given are for the
- city you're in, and are not exact for your site. The entire
- message about this entry can be found in the README for UUCP in
- comp.mail.maps. (as can documentation on the rest of this stuff.)
- This is so that the UUCP Project can make pretty geographic maps of
- the UUCP/USENET, which will now include these FidoNet gateways...
- 10) A space separated list of the names of your netnews news feeds.
- 11) #R means remarks. I am using it to say my fidonode number and that the
- hostmaster for the domain can be reached at this site. You will
- probably want to put your fidonet node number there at least. Note there
- is only one line for this, more comments can be given later.
- 12) #W is "this was written by"; "on." The time doesn't need to be that
- precise, but it should reflect the date (Month/Day/Year) at least.
- Note that all of the addresses given do not show paths. Those will
- be figured out by the pathalias map system.
- 13) Now for the fun part. The next two lines show the aliases and
- routing for the system. (Who it is, and who it talks with).
-
- castle = castle.fidonet.org, f302.n105.z1.fidonet.org
-
- "system castle is also known as castle.IFNA.ORG, f302.n105.z1.ifna.org,
- The dual lines will be deleted in June, they are just for the domain
- name transition. Note that all AKA node numbers for your node should
- also be listed in this way. You do not have to use one line, a trailing
- comma means " look at the next line for the next entry," but entries
- can not be split over two or more lines. (you can't say n302 on one line
- and .n015.z1.fidonet.org on the next.)
-
- castle orstcs(POLLED), verdix(EVENING), agora(EVENING)
-
- "system castle gateways mail to orstcs rarely, and with verdix and agora
- every night."
-
- castle .n134.z1.fidonet.org
-
- This is the real magic here. It means that anything ending with any of
- these titles goes via castle, so each network is represented in one "word"
- and I don't have to list every node. Ain't it wonnerful? Verdix is my feed
- from the UUCP and Internet, so it calls me every time mail comes in,
- and I call it when ever I generate mail going out. See the file README for a
- more complete list of what can go in the (). Note that I don't have
- my entire map here as I list every net in region 17 (except for 105,
- which is handled by Buskers), if you gateway for more than one net/region
- tell me what they are and I will put them in your map in the most economical
- manner.
-
- After you get this all done, send the map to me at 105/302 or
- {verdix,agora,orstcs}!nomad or nomad@castle.fidonet.org (the things in the
- {}s mean "choose one of these.") and I will use it to create the MX
- records for your net (for the Internet) and will send it on to the UUCP
- Project for inclusion in the maps. If you have a problem with it I will
- let you know and we can correct it. Please note that I would like you
- to find a local InterNet site that will forward mail from the Internet
- to you, then let me know what it is. I will be posting to some
- newsgroups asking for help in this, but if you find one on your own it
- saves me a lot of work. This is the third draft, so there are probably
- a few typos and more than a few spell-os, but please have pity on me,
- I'm trying. ("Yes, very.")
-
- If you have any questions, feel free to write to me at the above
- addresses, or at any of the following:
- ---------------------
- Lee Damon UUCP: {tektronix,hp-pcd}!orstcs!-------
- nomad@cs.orst.edu \ \
- nomad@castle.fidonet.org verdix!castle!nomad
- FidoNet: 105/302 - The Castle BBS - 503-629-5841 /
- agora!
- +1 503 629 9491 (home) +1 503 690 1116 (work) (please note GMT +8)