grandi@noao.UUCP (Steve Grandi) (01/14/85)
After the new distribution of the uucp maps arrived I ran pathalias
(the version that was distributed with the first release of the maps).
The program proceeded to find that noao had no paths to anyone, not
even its neighbors!! After a binary search, I found that when usa.il
was included in the input, bad things happened. A perusal of usa.il
revealed that the data for oddjob included an alias for noao (kpno =
noao). Commenting out the offending line caused pathalias to hum
along and give the expected results. Moral: don't have an alias for
the local site!
--
Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ USA
UUCP: {allegra,arizona,astrovax,decvax,hao,ihnp4,lbl-csam,seismo} !noao!grandi
Arpa: noao!grandi@lbl-csamhoney@down.FUN (code 101) (01/15/85)
people seem to have gotten a little carried away with alias declarations. if you want local aliases, that's fine, but keep them local. the only aliases that should be sent "outside" are those that pertain to a machine changing names, e.g., noao = kpno. note the syntax: primaryname = alias [, alias ...] other aliases, such as the ucb nicknames, are more a hindrance than anything else. i will be re-posting pathalias sometime in the next week. peter
wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) (01/16/85)
> After the new distribution of the uucp maps arrived I ran pathalias > (the version that was distributed with the first release of the maps). > The program proceeded to find that noao had no paths to anyone, not > even its neighbors!! After a binary search, I found that when usa.il > was included in the input, bad things happened. A perusal of usa.il > revealed that the data for oddjob included an alias for noao (kpno = > noao). Commenting out the offending line caused pathalias to hum > along and give the expected results. Moral: don't have an alias for > the local site! > Steve Grandi, National Optical Astronomy Observatories, Tucson, AZ USA The problem was that the alias was backwards, it should have been noao = kpno. We have that alias for noao here as well as a alias for ourselves astrovax = astrova , to guard against a standard mangling of our name. The aliases, however are not on the stuff about astrovax that I sent out. It is possible that the above problem may have been partly my fault as a year or so ago when oddjob came on the net I sent them a tape with pathalias and the routing database such as it was here at the time. At that time I mistakenly had all of my aliases backwards. -- Bill Sebok Princeton University, Astrophysics {allegra,akgua,burl,cbosgd,decvax,ihnp4,noao,princeton,vax135}!astrovax!wls