Xref: utzoo comp.mail.misc:5569 comp.mail.uucp:6670 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!flatlin!bad From: bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org (Christoph Badura) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Pathalias creating recursive paths for site island and moon!! Message-ID: <1991May22.191401.7947@flatlin.ka.sub.org> Date: 22 May 91 19:14:01 GMT References: <1991May21.204119.652@coplex.uucp> Organization: Guru Systems/Funware Department Lines: 45 In <1991May21.204119.652@coplex.uucp> dean@coplex.uucp (Dean Brooks) writes: > Here are a few of the sample entries: >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 >Anyone else seen this? Is this a problem with pathalias, or is it a >problem with a vertain map entry? Yes. I ran into this about four weeks ago. It is a nontrivial bug in the handling of terminal links. It is, however, sensitive to changes in the input. Here is a minimal map I came up with. Note the different behaviour when you swap the two lines for agsc. pathalias -c -l agsc < climax metropo !END! Apparently all versions of pathalias have this problem. The Smail3 version produces negative costs in this case. The version on citi.umich.edu just eats up all memory producing no output. And the version on uunet produces recursive paths too, I am told. > We are running the latest version of pathalias (ver. 9 distrubted with >smail 3.1.19), and are directly connected to "uunet" via uucp. The smail3 version should not only produce recursive paths for the above input, it should get the wrong host before the last bang. :-( If you need a preliminary fix, mail me. chris -- Christoph Badura Karlsruhe, Deutschland bad@flatlin.ka.sub.org +49 721 606137