Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 11/03/84 (WLS Mods); site astrovax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!astrovax!wls From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok) Newsgroups: net.mail Subject: Re: Running pathalias on the uucp maps Message-ID: <529@astrovax.UUCP> Date: Wed, 16-Jan-85 01:26:20 EST Article-I.D.: astrovax.529 Posted: Wed Jan 16 01:26:20 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 16-Jan-85 21:23:53 EST References: <454@aquila.noao.UUCP> Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics Lines: 23 > 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