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From: schafer@BRAZOS.RICE.EDU (Richard A. Schafer)
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.nodmgt-l
Subject: Using NETSERV tools to update my node entry
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Date: 9 Feb 90 22:33:46 GMT
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I've heard the arguments about using NETSERV tools to update my node
entry, and am not at all sure about a few things.

Such as how to use them to change tags like routtab.  Trying to
update my routtab entry, I get told that I have more than 8
user tags (these turn out to be Inforep, Techrep, srv1id,
srv1type, srv2id, tformat, tclass, cks, plus who knows what else).
Since there are more than 8, NODESNAD refuses to display more
than the first 8 tags, which presumably means I can't change
the non-displayed tags, whatever they are.

Is anyone going to update NODESNAD to recognize the newer tags?
Am I using obsolete tools, and if so what should I be using?

I got interested in this today when I found 3 routing tables
in my reader:

  RICEVM1 NETINIT
  RICELIBR NETINIT
  RICE NETINIT

Now I'll bet that my nodes entry for RICEVM1 and RICE don't
contain :routtab. tags, which is why these were presumably
generated by NETSERV.  (Actually, looking at the VERS9002
NODUPD file, I find that someone has added :routtab tags saying
that NETSERV is to generate the tables, and send them to me.)
I've already sent in an update (too late for 9002; 9003?) to
change RICEVM1 to indicate that I generate my own tables, thank
you, and will also do that for RICELIBR and RICECSVM.  But how
on earth do I say not to generate
a routing table for RICE, which is an alias of RICEVM1?  This
seems ludicrous, and seems to be a flaw in NETSERV's table
generation process.

Richard
(TechRep for RICEVM1, RICECSVM, and RICELIBR.  And also RICE?)