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From: generous@daitc.ARPA (Curtis Generous)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Invalid uucp map syntax?
Message-ID: <51@daitc.ARPA>
Date: 4 May 88 14:56:27 GMT
Organization: Defense Applied Information Technology Center, Alexandria VA
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Keywords: maps, syntax

In a previous private message, uucpmap@rutgers.edu said:
>According to the new rules for pathalias maps, the only character which can be
>used for local routing is ! (instead of the @ in the HOST entry).

Extract of UUCP map entry (with bogus names substituted):
>#
>HOST	host1(EVENING), host2(DIRECT), host3(DEMAND), 
>#
>#	LAN addressed user@host
>#
>MAIN-ETHER = @{HOST, local1, local2}(LOCAL)

After having my last map update rejected because of 'invalid syntax',
I started looking through the UUCP maps to find out what was the accepted
way to show ethernet connected hosts to a UUCP relay machine.  What I found
was that there are 5 basic ways that are used:

1.	MAIN-ETHER = @{HOST, local1, local2}(LOCAL)
2.	MAIN-ETHER = {HOST, local1, local2}(LOCAL)
3.	MAIN-ETHER = {HOST, local1, local2}!(LOCAL)
4.	MAIN-ETHER = {HOST, local1, local2}
5.	Listing each local host as an entry (i.e. local1(LOCAL), local2(LOCAL)

The documentation is unclear about which ons is therefore correct (option 2?).  
Any suggestions?  What I want is to allow the rest of the world to find out 
a route to hosts located on MAIN-ETHER (local1, local2, etc...).

-curtis-
Curtis C. Generous
Defense Applied Information Technology Center (DAITC)
ARPA: generous@daitc.ARPA
UUCP: {uunet,vrdxhq,lll-tis}!daitc!generous