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From: honey@down.FUN (code 101)
Newsgroups: net.news.sa
Subject: net.news.map path info
Message-ID: <287@down.FUN>
Date: Wed, 29-Aug-84 11:46:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: down.287
Posted: Wed Aug 29 11:46:38 1984
Date-Received: Thu, 30-Aug-84 01:41:54 EDT
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I applaud the effort now under way to distribute path data in
net.news.map.  Timely and accurate information will go a long way to
improving mail handling in the anarchy net.  I expect the quality of
the data will improve over time, nonetheless, I have stumbled across
a few serious problems, along with some minor syntax errors.

    Zehntel claims to be aliased as alpha, while alpha is
    well known to mappers and to various btl hosts.

    Sri-tsc declares some uucp links, but is reachable only via the
    arpanet, leading to a familiar ambiguity.  Some utah sites have the
    same problem.

    The following local hosts at sun are not unique:
	icarus		btl, well known to mappers.
	ariel		btl, well known to mappers.
	orion		btl, well known to mappers.
	phoenix		btl, well known to mappers.
	merlin		btl, well known to mappers.
	phobos		btl, well known to mappers.
	mars		btl, may be an informal alias.
	venus		btl, may be an informal alias.
	west		btl, may be an informal alias.

	medusa		masscomp local host.
	babel		masscomp local host.
	asylum		masscomp local host.

	comet		instructional vax at ukc.
	galileo		somewhere in italy, someday.
	rigel		astronomy department at u. of chicago.

    "I doubt it" local hosts at sun:
	emerald		same as teklabs!azure!crimson!emerald?
	prodigal	same as bang!prodigal and cadre!prodigal?
	vixen		same as linus!vixen?
	et		same as axiom!et?
	saturn		same as hplabs!saturn?
	titan           same as wbux5!titan or utcsrgv!titan?  for that
			matter, is wbux5!titan  == utcsrgv!titan?

    Both sun and masscomp are vexed by sendmail syntax; they would like
    mail from, say, sun!medusa!user to look like it came from sun!user.
    I'm sure there's a way to do this -- can anyone help?  A correct
    solution would build an appropriate unix-mail From line (in
    addition to the header-phile From: or Sender: line).

	Peter