Path: utzoo!yunexus!maccs!dan
From: dan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Dan Trottier)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: Could someone explain this for me?
Message-ID: <255AD774.21064@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 10 Nov 89 14:13:07 GMT
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References: <1989Nov8.195924.29680@eci386.uucp> <89Nov9.144803est.2778@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: dan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Dan Trottier)
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Organization: McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario
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In article <89Nov9.144803est.2778@neat.cs.toronto.edu> rayan@cs.toronto.edu (Rayan Zachariassen) writes:
>clewis@eci386.uucp (Chris Lewis) writes:
>
>>H'm, smail 2.5 expands that out to:
>
>>    yunexus!utai!yorkvm1.bitnet!evan
>
>This is a bug in smail2.5.  I don't have the fix.  People run into this
>bug all the time and few think to blame smail.

It is a bug an I have a fix if anyone is interested. The solution is to
first check host.sub.domain before checking .host.sub.domain. We've run
for about a 8 months with this change and everything seems to work fine.

I could post a patch to this group if enough people are interested.

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Dan Trottier                                       dan@maccs.dcss.McMaster.CA
Dept of Computer Science                       ...!uunet!utai!utgpu!maccs!dan
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