Path: utzoo!censor!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: Could someone explain this for me?
Message-ID: <1071@becker.UUCP>
Date: 11 Nov 89 05:16:09 GMT
References: <1989Nov8.195924.29680@eci386.uucp> <89Nov9.144803est.2778@neat.cs.toronto.edu> <255AD774.21064@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
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Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
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In article <255AD774.21064@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> dan@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Dan Trottier) writes:
|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.

	Sure, go ahead & post it.

	If you don't, however, please
	send me a copy.

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