On Fri, 4 Jan 91 14:10:54 PST Melvin Klassen <[log in to unmask]> said: >P.S. Note that "SUVM.bitnet" == "SUVM.ACS.SYR.EDU". So, it's possible > for them to be an Internet gateway. Does "Mail-via=DIST" inhibit > this? It's really very simple. You can put a REROUTE command in the profile of your RSCS to cause it to intercept all mail for INTERBIT flowing through the local node and redirect it to the local SMTP, and you will be acting as an Internet gateway as far as mail from your local mailer and any other site routing INTERBIT through you is concerned. It is however clearly unreasonable to expect LISTSERV to "know" that you have done that if it is not told in some way. It reads DOMAIN NAMES and finds out that the gateway is at BITNET node INTERBIT, so it looks at the topology to find out what is the closest LISTSERV to node INTERBIT; as things are now, INTERBIT is defined as being a leaf node off CUNYVMV2, so it tries to get as close to CUNY as possible. This is clearly stupid, but this is because the proper topology information is not present in the INTERBIT entry: it should have other links to all the sites which run an INTERBIT gateway, so that LISTSERV routes to the closest *actual* INTERBIT site, and not to CUNY. Eric