Re: UUCP-SMTP gatewaying

[Carlos G Mendioroz <tron@secyt.gov.ar>]

Hi all,
Just thought of commenting the way this is done here. (and it seems
to be working, a couple of tests to postmaster@xerox.com -/nick ?-
did it ok)

We have some 1500 uucp nodes here that we connect to Internet.
To do so we have:

-MXs for them of some form pointing to us 
(last resort, uucpnodename.ourdomain)
This helps the world know about these nodes.

-A fake .UUCP NS domain that maps uucpnodename.UUCP to its 
canonical (FQDN :-) name as a CNAME
The cf uses it to map addresses to canonical form before resending
to the world. 

-A pathdb file to map back FQDN names to uucpnodename, or even uucppath.
(Yes, some of the nodes are way down the UUCP tree we root).

Hope this helps,
-tron