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From: Karl.Kleinpaste@cbstr1.att.com
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Subject: Re: Duplicate lines in pathalias output
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Date: Fri, 28-Aug-87 09:20:10 EDT
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This looks like a variation of a problem I found quite a while back in
the Jan 86 pathalias release.  It seems that, when constructing paths
into domains, pathalias doesn't notice that (e.g.) .att.com is the
composite construction of .att and .com, and can generate two routes
to the single domain string .att.com.  This is due to the fact that I
had put in some extra pathalias info in my private data to describe
the .com, .gov, and .edu domains before the officially-distributed
stuff seemed to do it properly; it conflicted in this way with a line
in one of the domain files that said that ihnp4 was the .att.com
gateway, whereas I had broken .com down a bit, with cbosgd listed as
my .att gateway.  Poof, 2 routes for .att.com, through ihnp4 and
cbosgd.  Your bug seems similar, but certainly not the same - the
domain in question for you is only a one-domain-name-component item.

I wrote to Peter about it, but I don't think it was ever resolved.

Karl