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From: wls@astrovax.UUCP (William L. Sebok)
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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
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Organization: Princeton Univ. Astrophysics
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> 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
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