lenny@icus.UUCP (Lenny Tropiano) (12/22/87)
In article <271@ontenv.UUCP> norm@ontenv.UUCP (Norman Soley) writes: |>I noticed a new site posting for "mickey". The name "mickey" is already |>used (by the Disney Company). Duplicate site names are common occurances |>in news.newsites, but they always get filtered out before they make it |>into the maps. A workable method even if the turn-around time is a |>little long (and yes I know the mapping project is working on |>improving that). However in this case the new "mickey" is connected to |>uunet. Shouldn't someone at uunet be checking the maps before they |>connect a new site? Any other site could be excused but much of the |>net counts on uunet as an authoritative source for routing. |>-- There are a couple of other problems that I have noticed (at least with my site). When the UUCP Mapping Project people send out map updates the people who un-shar these maps and generate new pathalias data, don't remove the old maps (I believe in fear of not getting all the maps?! :-) ) This causes some old maps, like the u.usa.XX.a.1 (for the AT&T maps) that haven't been updated in years still generate routes (bogus ones). I wouldn't have noticed this, but I just recently took on another site called "mozart", he is legitimately registered with the Map-people, as is another site called "alps" -- a PC6300+ that I run at work. My smail log file had some entries in it for mailing to alps!smith, mozart!meijerin ... both who don't EXIST on those machines. They might have existed on internal AT&T machines that once/or still do exist. Since my site (icus) is well connected, the pathalias sometimes generates paths to these sites through me... hence dumping these mail messages in the dead area ;-( Lenny Tropiano ICUS Systems Administrator -- ============================ US MAIL: Lenny Tropiano, ICUS Computer Group IIIII CCC U U SSSS PO Box 1 I C C U U S Islip Terrace, New York 11752 I C U U SSS PHONE: (516) 968-8576 [H] (516) 582-5525 [W] I C C U U S AT&T MAIL: ...attmail!icus!lenny TELEX: 154232428 IIIII CCC UUU SSSS UUCP: ============================ ...{uunet!godfre, harvard!talcott}!\ ...{ihnp4, boulder, mtune, bc-cis, ptsfa}! >icus!lenny "Usenet the final frontier" ...{cmcl2!phri, hoptoad}!dasys1!/
pleasant@rutgers.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant) (12/27/87)
The u.usa.XX.a.1 files were declared dead long ago. At that time we posted
empty u.usa.XX.a files to the net to cause the old data to be tossed.
Somehow, your site must have missed these postings. At any rate, if anyone is
still using u.usa.XX.a files for routing, you're bound to get into trouble.
At this point, you should just delete the files. Some folks have kept these
files around because AT&T no longer publishes internal information. That's
fine I guess - but don't use the files as input to pathalias!!! BTW: The same
goes for u.usa.nj.b.1 (the old Bellcore File). That is, it should no longer
be used as input to pathalias.....
-UUCP Mapping Project
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Mel Pleasant
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