# NEWS V5.6             3-Nov-1988
#
# Distribution control file
#
# This file is for routing network news batches through the nodes (as distinct
# from routing locally originated messages). The object of this file is to
# reduce the number of redundant copies of news items pushed through the
# net.
#
# If the node is functionally an endnode, then this file must be empty.
#
# Otherwise the file should contain a list of entries of the form:
#  <from node>  <forward node>[,<forward node>,...]
#
#      <from node> is the name of the node which sent the news item to the local
#                  node - i.e. the Path: line of the item will be of the form:
#                  Path: <from node>!.....
#      <forward node> is the name of the node to be forwarded a copy of the
#                  news item. This name must match one the 'node' fields in
#                  your NEWS.SYS file.
#
#       i.e. incoming net news from <from node> should be forwarded to the
#       nodes <forward node 1>,<forward node 2>, ...
#
# The following file is an example from this site (ANU)
#   - primary feed is from "anucsd" to downstream sites via star node "fac3"
#   - feeds from downstream sites are forwarded to all other downstream
#     sites via "fac3", as well as the upstream site, "anucsd".
#
#                             /->  csc
#  * <-> anucsd <--->  fac3 <--->  rsbs0
#                            \\->  phys0  <--> phys1
#                             \->  oddjob
#
# news.distribution for node "fac3":
#       anucsd  csc,rsbs0,phys0,oddjob
#       csc     anucsd,rsbs0,phys0,oddjob
#       rsbs0   anucsd,csc,phys0,oddjob
#       phys0   anucsd,csc,rsbs0,oddjob
#       oddjob  anucsd,csc,rsbs0,phys0
#
# news.distribution for node "phys0":
#       fac3    phys1
#       phys1   fac3
#
# More complex news routing topologies may be configured using this file, and
# the entries in the right-hand side need not be actual node names: they must
# however correspond to entities as described in the 'node' field of NEWS.SYS. 
