Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!glasgow!sysnet From: sysnet@central1.lancaster.ac.uk (Network Manager) Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail,mail.uk-sendmail-workers Subject: Oddities with uk.ac.man sitenames Message-ID: <21397.8811281332@uk.ac.lancaster.central1> Date: 28 Nov 88 13:32:08 GMT Sender: daemon@cs.glasgow.ac.uk Lines: 21 X-mailer: mail-news 2.1 While getting UK-Senmail 1.4a going on our new Sequent Symmetry I've come across a funny in the way mail to uk.ac.man.* is handled. A BSD4.2 VAX running an older version of the C-Nrs program and UK-Sendmail 1.4a handles things like fred@uk.ac.man.cs.ux quite correctly; however our system translates this into fred%ux.cs.man.ac.uk%man.ac.uk@umist.cn.pa, which isn't exactly useful! The address man.psy is similarly mangled, and so I guess is anything starting uk.ac.man. Does anyone else see this happen? There are two entries in the janet.chn file that map uk.ac.man and uk.ac.manchester to umist.cn.pa; Piete Brooks says that this does seem to reflect what's in the NRS - so is Manchester's NRS entry wrong? Does any one have any suggestions? Options like using mmdf are not open to us - we have what the suppliers give us and can't change, so what we have has to work. We also don't want to have to apply manual patches to the chn and dom files every time we rebuild the tables. Alan Phillips Computer Centre Lancaster University (sysnet@uk.ac.lancs.cent1)