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From: dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks)
Subject: Pathalias creating recursive paths for site island and moon!!
Organization: Copper Electronics, Inc.
Date: Tue, 21 May 1991 20:41:19 GMT
Message-ID: <1991May21.204119.652@coplex.uucp>

   Ack!  I just recently looked in our pathalias database after receiving
a few bounced messages, and found something very wrong...

   We are running the latest version of pathalias (ver. 9 distrubted with
smail 3.1.19), and are directly connected to "uunet" via uucp.

   Here are a few of the sample entries:

This is the the path it shows to uunet, to which we are directly connected!!

uunet!dis!moon!island!uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!island!
               uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!island!uunet!
               moon!island!uunet

This is the output when I do a path to site "moon":

uunet!unhd!uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!
               island!uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!island!uunet!moon!
               island!uunet!moon

If I remove the sites "island" and "moon" from the maps, everything
comes out ok in the database.  Probably an easy problem to find.
 
Anyone else seen this?  Is this a problem with pathalias, or is it a
problem with a vertain map entry?

--
dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks)
Copper Electronics, Inc.
Louisville, Kentucky