Oddities with uk.ac.man sitenames

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1 total messages Started by Network Manager Mon, 28 Nov 1988 13:32

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Author: Network Manager
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 1988 13:32

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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)

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