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From: bob@acornrc.UUCP (Bob Weissman)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp,news.sysadmin
Subject: Problems with pathalias
Message-ID: <590@acornrc.UUCP>
Date: 6 Feb 88 17:56:34 GMT
Organization: Acorn Research Centre, Palo Alto, CA
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I've been having problems with pathalias lately.  This is the latest
version as distributed on the net.

Site 'iconet', for example, disappears without a trace from pathalias
output.  It is listed in oliveb's map entry along with a dozen other
sites starting with 'ico' which appear just fine in pathalias output.

We talk to a site, orc.olivetti.com, which is not yet listed in the
official maps, so it appears in our path.local file thusly:
	acornrc	<orc>(DIRECT+FAST)
	orc	= orc.olivetti.com
	orc	.orc.olivetti.com

But although pathalias output shows
	orc orc!%s
	orc.olivetti.com orc!%s
it also shows
	.orc.olivetti.com oliveb!orc!%s
for some reason.  oliveb is the domain gateway for orc's parent domain,
.olivetti.com.

Does anyone have any ideas what's going on here?

Thanks,
-- 
Bob Weissman
Internet:	bob@acornrc.UUCP
UUCP:		...!{ ames | decwrl | oliveb | apple }!acornrc!bob
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