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Started by Ken Mcvay
Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:40
smail routing problem
Author: Ken Mcvay
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:40
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 1992 21:40
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I am running smail 3+ on an SCO XENIX system, and have noticed a serious
problem with routing.
Mail for imex.org is being misrouted to system panth. Panth was the correct
site a year ago, but is no longer handling imex.org mail, as the smail paths
file shows:
#
.n81.z89.imex.org cowichn!%s
n81.z89.imex.org cowichn!%s
.imex.org cowichn!%s
imex.org cowichn!%s
panth.almanac.bc.ca panth!%s
#
I've grepped for panth in /usr/lib/smail, and for imex.org - the only
references are from the paths file, above.
Can anyone shed some light on this mystery? There is obviously something
that is incorrectly routing the mail, but I'll be damned if I can locate it.
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The Old Frog's Almanac - Public Access UseNet for Central Vancouver Island
(604) 245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4) Waffle XENIX 1.64
Ladysmith, British Columbia, CANADA. kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken McVay)
Sssssssh.... Hard disk dying...
Re: smail routing problem
Author: Ken Mcvay
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:17
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 17:17
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In article <1992Nov10.214053.4676@oneb.almanac.bc.ca> kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken Mcvay) writes:
>I am running smail 3+ on an SCO XENIX system, and have noticed a serious
>problem with routing.
>Mail for imex.org is being misrouted to system panth. Panth was the correct
>site a year ago, but is no longer handling imex.org mail, as the smail paths
>file shows:
>#
>.n81.z89.imex.org cowichn!%s
>n81.z89.imex.org cowichn!%s
>.imex.org cowichn!%s
>imex.org cowichn!%s
>panth.almanac.bc.ca panth!%s
>#
UPDATE: I received a note from tron@veritas.com, who suggested I try 'pathto
user@imex.org' to see what resulted. The result was 'user@cowichn', which is
correct. At the same time, two messages were misrouted to panth. Here are
the headers:
From mala!cs.toronto.edu!pathadmin Thu Nov 12 00:43:16 1992 remote from oneb
Received: by oneb.almanac.bc.ca (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.33)
id <m0mpa8w-0001EnC@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>; Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:43 PST
Received: by mala.bc.ca (DECUS UUCP ///2.0/);
Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:19:56 PST
Received: from neat.cs.toronto.edu by MALINS.MALA.BC.CA (MX V3.1C) with SMTP;
Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:19:50 PST
Received: by neat.cs.toronto.edu id <47987>; Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:19:09 -0500
From: Path database maintainer <pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu>
To: Richard.Whittaker@p0.f0.n81.z89.imex.org
CC: pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu
Errors-To: Path database maintainer <pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu>
Subject: errors in map entry/entries for bmaster
Message-ID: <92Nov12.031909est.47987@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:18:57 -0500
<message text>
From mala!cs.toronto.edu!pathadmin Thu Nov 12 00:47:32 1992 remote from oneb
Received: by oneb.almanac.bc.ca (/\=-/\ Smail3.1.18.1 #18.33)
id <m0mpaD5-0001QZC@oneb.almanac.bc.ca>; Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:47 PST
Received: by mala.bc.ca (DECUS UUCP ///2.0/);
Thu, 12 Nov 92 00:45:01 PST
Received: from neat.cs.toronto.edu by MALINS.MALA.BC.CA (MX V3.1C) with SMTP;
Thu, 12 Nov 1992 00:44:54 PST
Received: by neat.cs.toronto.edu id <47987>; Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:44:01 -0500
From: Path database maintainer <pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu>
To: Richard.Whittaker@p0.f4.n81.z89.imex.org
CC: pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu
Errors-To: Path database maintainer <pathadmin@cs.toronto.edu>
Subject: errors in map entry/entries for cowichn
Message-ID: <92Nov12.034401est.47987@neat.cs.toronto.edu>
Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:43:48 -0500
<message text>
Note that panth does not appear in the headers. How can this happen?
If /usr/lib/smail/paths isn't being read, where is the misrouting
information being found by smail?
What am I missing here?
--
The Old Frog's Almanac - Public Access UseNet for Central Vancouver Island
(604) 245-3205 (v32) (604) 245-4366 (2400x4) Waffle XENIX 1.64
Ladysmith, British Columbia, CANADA. kmcvay@oneb.almanac.bc.ca (Ken McVay)
Sssssssh.... Hard disk dying...
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