Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.pmdf
Subject: Relegating BitNet to 2nd-class transport
From: "j.lance Wilkinson, 814-865-1818"
Date: 23 Dec 1992 15:11 -0500 (EST)
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OK, here's something to stew on over the holidays, since I won't be back to
read any replies until 4 January:

We currently run with psulias.bitnet as our local host alias; we have both JNET
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, etc.) would change?  Here's
my PMDF.CNF file:

+------------------------------ cut here -----------------------------------+
! PMDF configuration file for PSULIAS.BITNET
!
!       Rule Definitions
!
! Rewrite rules for the local host/cluster
!
PSULIAS              $U@PSULIAS.BITNET
PSULIAS.BITNET       $U@PSULIAS.BITNET
PSUVM                $U%PSUVM.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
PSUVM.BITNET         $U%PSUVM.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
PSULIAS1             $U@PSULIAS.BITNET
PSULIAS1.BITNET      $U@PSULIAS.BITNET
PSULCS               $U@PSULIAS.BITNET
PSULCS.BITNET        $U@PSULIAS.BITNET
psulias.psu.edu      $U@psulias.bitnet
!
PSUCES                $U%PSUCES.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
PSUCES.BITNET         $U%PSUCES.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
ALLIN1                $U@ALLIN1
ALLIN1.BITNET         $U@ALLIN1
! The following are just to allow for historical addresses no longer supported
PSUCES1               $U%PSUCES.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
PSUCES1.BITNET        $U%PSUCES.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
PSUCES3               $U%PSUCES.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
PSUCES3.BITNET        $U%PSUCES.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
!
! rule to handle incoming mail with '.profs' on the end
!
.profs               $U%$H.BITNET
!
! rule required by the BBoard facility
!
jcoerce.bitnet       $U%PSULIAS1.BITNET@JNET-DAEMON
!
! Rewrite rules for TCP/IP domain literals
!
[128.118.88.200]                        $U@psulias.bitnet
![128.118.88.100]                        $U@psuces.bitnet
[]                                      $U%[$L]@MTCP-DAEMON
!
! rules for gateways
!
<pmdf_root:[table]gates.rules
<pmdf_root:[table]tcpip.rules
!
! Rewrite for BITNET gateways
!
BITNET-GATEWAY                          $U@BITNET-GATEWAY
!
!       Channel Definitions
!

defaults logging errsendpost

l 822 single headerbottom nox_env_to
psulias.bitnet

bit_local 733 single nosmtp
Jnet-DAEMON

!       SUNY/Stony Brook's All-in-1 Channel
allin1_local single master nosmtp queue ALLIN1_BATCH
ALLIN1

!       MAILServer Channel
mailserv
MAILSERV-CHANNEL

!
! BITNET channel definitions included from external files
!
<PMDF_ROOT:[TABLE]GATES.CHANS

!
! BITNET gateway channel
!
bit_gateway nox_env_to period 4 network master_debug slave_debug
BITNET-GATEWAY

mtcp_local single_sys smtp nox_env_to mx
MTCP-DAEMON psulias.psu.edu
!
+------------------------------ cut here -----------------------------------+

+-"Never Underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of mag tapes"--+
| J.Lance Wilkinson ("Lance")            BitNet:    JLW@PSULIAS.BITNET      |
| Systems Design Specialist - Lead       InterNet:  JLW@PSULIAS.PSU.EDU     |
| Library Computing Services         AT&T:(814) 865-1818 FAX:(814)863-3560  |
| E8 Pattee Library                      "I'd rather be dancing..."         |
| Penn State University         A host is a host from coast to coast,       |
| University Park, PA 16802     And no one will talk to a host that's close |
| <POSTMAST@PSULIAS.BITNET>     Unless the host that isn't close            |
| <POSTMAST@PSUCES.BITNET>      Is busy, hung or dead.                      |
+------"He's dead, Jim. I'll get his tricorder. You take his wallet."-------+