From: "Herve GILIBERT, Universite de St-ETIENNE."
Newsgroups: vmsnet.mail.mx
Subject: Routing mails
Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1992 08:58:01 +0100
Organization: Mx-List<==>Vmsnet.Mail.Mx Gateway
X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List

Hi MX users !
I'd like to have E-mails sent to any node on my domain (UNIV-ST-ETIENNE.FR) to
be routed through my MX node (STROPH).
Helped by Jonathan E. Hardis I set :
1) in the nameserver :
rineta in mx 10 stroph.univ-st-etienne.fr
2) in config.mcp
define path "rineta" smtp/route="rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr"
define path "rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr" smtp/route"rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr"
sending mail to rineta causes MX looping sendig mail to itself (stroph)
Here my paths :
STROPH $mcp show path

Domain-to-path mappings:
  Domain="stroph.univ-st-etienne.fr", Path=Local
  Domain="stroph", Path=Local
  Domain="[161.3.1.11]", Path=Local
  Domain="rineta", Path=SMTP, Route="rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr"
  Domain="rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr", Path=SMTP,
Route="rineta.univ-st-etienne.f
r"
  Domain="UNIV-ST-ETIENNE.FR", Path=Local
  Domain="*.UUCP", Path=SMTP, Route="uunet.uu.net"
  Domain="*.BITNET", Path=SMTP, Route="mirsa.inria.fr"
  Domain="*", Path=SMTP

Here the answe of my DNS :
STROPH $ipncp rrfetch rineta /mx
   # of RRs = [00000001]
  MX: Pref = [0000000A] Name = [stroph.UNIV-ST-ETIENNE.FR]

here mx router log file :
STROPH $type MX_ROUTER_LOG.LOG;723
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:03.44 %PROCESS, Processing entry number 20405
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:04.37 %PROCESS, Status from READ_INFO was 00000001
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:04.37 %PROCESS, Message originated in VMS Mail.
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:04.46 %PROCESS,  will run domain expander on envelope
addresse
s.
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:04.66 %PROCESS,  will run domain expander on message headers.
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:15.62 %PROCESS, Finished VMSmail-origin preprocessing.
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:15.62 %PROCESS, Recipient #0:
<gilibert@rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr>
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:15.65 %REWRITE, No rewrite rules matched
<gilibert@rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr>
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:16.34 %FINDPATH, Site-spec expand on
rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr err=00000000
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:16.34 %FINDPATH, domain name RINETA.UNIV-ST-ETIENNE.FR
matched path pattern *
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:16.35 %PROCESS, Rewrote <gilibert@rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr>
as <gilibert@rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr>
-         next hop rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr, path 2
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:18.71 %PROCESS, Adding to SMTP path:
<gilibert@rineta.univ-st-etienne.fr>.
 5-NOV-1992 12:23:21.09 %PROCESS, Path SMTP gets 1 rcpts, entry number 20406

I can't figure why this path matches whith pattern * !
Does someone has any clue or can show me an another method ?
Thanks in advance
Herve
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                Herve GILIBERT                          UUUU     UUUU
                Universite Jean Monnet St-Etienne       UUUU     UUUU
                23,Rue du Dr. P. Michelon               UUUU     UUUU
                42023 ST ETIENNE Cedex 2                UUUU     UUUU
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