[news.sysadmin] u.nld.0 mangled

campbell@redsox.bsw.com (Larry Campbell) (06/19/89)

In article <5656@cs.utexas.edu> fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) writes:
-Pathalias complained bitterly this morning about syntax
-errors in u.nld.0.  Seems we got two of them, and the
-second one was damaged. 
 ...
-cs.utexas.edu% diff u.nld.0 u.nld.0.busted
-1c1
-< Path: cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!rutgers!pleasant
----
-> Path: cs.utexas.edu!wasatch!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!indri!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!mtxinu!ucbvax!rutgers!pleasant

The damaged one arrived here also; here are the paths involved (the first
one is the OK copy, the second one is the damaged one):

1c1
< Path: redsox!think!ames!apple!rutgers!pleasant
---
> Path: redsox!think!ames!hc!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!mtxinu!ucbvax!rutgers!pleasant

So it appears the culprit is one of:

	mtxinu unisoft lll-lcc lll-winken hc

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fletcher@cs.utexas.edu (Fletcher Mattox) (07/22/89)

Pathalias complained bitterly this morning about syntax
errors in u.nld.0.  Seems we got two of them, and the
second one was damaged. 

Note the creative addition of 4 to the ASCII value of certain
characters.  One of which happens to be in the message-id,
so it wasn't rejected as a duplicate.

Fletcher

cs.utexas.edu% diff u.nld.0 u.nld.0.busted
1c1
< Path: cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!rutgers!pleasant
---
> Path: cs.utexas.edu!wasatch!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!indri!unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!mtxinu!ucbvax!rutgers!pleasant
5c5
< Message-ID: <Jun.16.03.28.51.1989.22115@rutgers.rutgers.edu>
---
> Message-ID: <Jun.16.03.28.51.1989.22115@rutgers.rutgevs.edu>
47c47
< # Inter-backbone links
---
> # Inter-beckbone links
56c56
< 	crione(DEMAND), ctisbv(DEMAND), datelca(DEMAND), devtech(DEMAND),
---
> 	crione(DEMAND), ctisbv(DEMAND-, datelca(DEMAND), devtech(DEMAND),
59,60c59,60
< 	epd74hp(DEMAND), esatst(DEMAND), eurtrx(DEMAND), eutrc3(DEMAND),
< 	ezres(DEMAND), geveke(DEMAND), gouldnl(DEMAND), guvaxin(DEMAND),
---
> 	epd74hp(DEMAND), esatst(DEMAND-, eurtrx(DEMAND), eutrc3(DEMAND-,
> 	ezres(DEMAND), geveke(DEMAND-, gouldnl(DEMAND), guvaxin(DEMAND),
79c79
< 	tekeur(DEMAND), telmail(DEMAND), thtel(DEMAND), tic1(DEMAND),
---
> 	tekeur,DEMAND), telmail(DEMAND), thtel(DEMAND), tic1(DEMAND),
95,96c95,96
< #L	4 54 E / 52 22 N city
< #R	mcvax.uucp == MCVAX.BITNET; central EUnet site
---
> #L	4 54 E / 52 26 N city
> #R	mcvax.uucp == MCVAX.FITNET; central EUnet site
110c110
< mcvax	ariadne(ARPA), cernvax(ARPA), dkuug(ARPA), hafro(ARPA),
---
> mcvax	ariadne(ARPA), cernvax(AVPA), dkuug(ARPA), hafro(ARPA),
112c112
< 	inria(ARPA), goya(ARPA), ndosl(ARPA), prlb2(ARPA),
---
> 	inria(AVPA), goya(ARPA), ndosl(ARPA), prlb2(ARPA),

bob@giza.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (07/23/89)

We got our "<Jun.16.03.28.51.1989.22115@rutgers.rutgevs.edu>" from
unmvax, so whatever garbling didn't happen along the
"wasatch!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!indri" chunk of the path that it
took to get to you.  It seems to have occurred somewhere along
"unmvax!pprg.unm.edu!hc!lll-winken!lll-lcc!unisoft!mtxinu!ucbvax!rutgers".

Can anyone else help narrow it down, or raise their hand as the
culprit?