PMDF System Manager's Guide

One of two things can happen once the host/domain specification is rewritten. If the routing system is not associated with the local channel, or associated a channel marked with the routelocal channel keyword, or there are no additional host/domain specifications in the address, then the rewritten specification is substituted into the address replacing the original specification that was extracted for rewriting, and the rewriting process terminates.

If the routing system matches the local channel (or a channel marked with the routelocal channel keyword) and there are additional host/domain specifications that appear in the address, then the rewritten address is discarded, the original (initial) host/domain specification is removed from the address, a new host/domain specification is extracted from the address and the entire process is repeated. Rewriting will continue until either all the host/domain specifications are gone or a route through a non-local, non-routelocal channel is found. This iterative mechanism is PMDF's way of providing support for source routing. In effect, superfluous routes through the "local system" are removed from addresses by this process.