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Alan,

| 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?

First let me assure you that the NRS is correct. The people here have *really*
decided to use a Prime to serve the whole of Manchesters mail requirements.
You'll notice that I included a "please insult your local mail guru" in the
Prime's error messages when I spotted all the "reverse" domains coming in -- 
they were coming in from a number of places, including Cambridge, UCL and even
Manchester itself. At first we suspected mmdf of being clever, i.e. mailing to
uk.ac.man in the hope that it would recognise uk.ac.man.misspelling, but
soon found sendmail doing similar things. A number of sendmail.cf's seem
to have:

R$*.computer-science.manchester.ac.uk		$1ux.cs.man.ac.uk

buried in there. I'm not too familiar with the TECO-with-a-headache style
of sendmail.cf as yet, so not sure what this line does, but it looks a 
little odd to me. A colleague at Rutherford was investigating further,
but, typically, he left, and since SERC can't be bothered to buy us an
X25 I can't be bothered to sort out the problem for our Unix machines.

On the other hand, I hear 1.6 is around -- anybody tell me where (Jem?).

Cheers,

Ian.

{SERC/ECF Sys/Net Support, ian@uk.ac.umist}