Russ Allbery wrote:
Forrest J Cavalier <mibsoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:Russ Allbery wrote: Yes, this point bothered me as I was going to bed. Relays ought to check Path and would rewording indicate that? Would this be adequate.What sort of checking of Path do you have in mind? I can't figure out exactly what that would entail.
From 3.5 Duties of a Relaying agent. In order to avoid unnecessary relaying attempts, an article SHOULD NOT be relayed if the <path-identity> of the receiving agent (or some known alias thereof) appears as a <path-identity> (excluding within the <tail-entry> or following a "POSTED" <diag-keyword>) in its Path header field. (Need to modify it for reinjection.) An article posted locally on a private leaf node can easily be distinguished from others received via suck by checking the Path. Also I don't know that we need RFC2119 imperatives for the reinjection case. There is more than one way of determining that an article was posted locally.