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From: dws@cseg.uucp (David W. Summers)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc,comp.mail.uucp
Subject: HELP!  PathAlias BUG??
Keywords: Help Pathalias Bug Mail Maps
Message-ID: <727@cseg.uucp>
Date: 22 Sep 88 04:56:02 GMT
Organization: College of Engineering, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
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Hello NetLanders,
   I need some help.  I am trying to set up our PathAlias map entry and am
having trouble convincing PathAlias that one of our links is really low cost.
The problem stems from this:

   PathAlias Input:
      cseg @hcx(LOCAL)
      hcx  harry(DEMAND)

   The output looks like: (command 'pathalias -c')

   0 cseg	%s
   25 hcx	%s@hcx
   100000325	harry	harry!%s@hcx

   I have tried every way I know of to specify that the link from hcx to harry
is low cost.  I have even set all the costs at 0 and it still outputs the cost
to harry as INFINITE!  Is this a bug or do I just not understand something? 
The wierd thing about it is that If I tell pathalias that the link looks like

  cseg hcx(LOCAL)

rather than

  cseg @hcx(LOCAL)

  then everything works fine!  However, at the present I can't do this because
I am sending from cseg to hcx via SENDMAIL and it REQUIRES the '@' syntax to
be able to get mail to hcx.

   Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.  I sent out a similar request
about a week ago or more and have heard nothing back.  

                                   Thank you (VERY MUCH) in advance.
                                   - David Summers
                                   (dws@cseg.uucp)
                                   (..!romed!cseg!dws)