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- From: bg@dymaxion.ns.ca
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- Subject: UCX SET HOST confuses MX
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.130825.48@dymaxion.ns.ca>
- Date: 31 Aug 92 13:08:24 AST
- Organization: Dymaxion Research Limited, NS, Canada
- Lines: 33
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- Does anybody know why the following might confuse MX?
-
- $ UCX
- SET HOST "foo.bar.one"/address=1.2.3.4/alias="one"
- .
- .
- .
- SET HOST "foo.bar.five"/address=5.2.3.4/alias="five"
-
- After setting up a few aliases this way, one of our people tried
- to send a message to mx%"user@foo.bar.one" which automagically
- got redirected to mx%"user@foo.bar.five" resulting in the message
- being bounced back because there is no "user" at foo.bar.five
- - Note that the aliases weren't even used
- - I have no rewrite rules in MX
- - I have no SET HOST/ROUTE entries which might reroute the message
- (other than the standard ones for .BITNET and .UUCP)
- - There is no forwarding address for user@foo.bar.one
- - The substitution of "foo.bar.five" for "foo.bar.one" happens before
- the mail header lines are even generated
- - i.e. there are no "Resent:" header lines in the message which gets
- bounced off of foo.bar.five and the "To:" message says the recipient
- is "user@foo.bar.five", not "user@foo.bar.one"
- - This behaviour persisted even after I did an "MCP shutdown" and
- restarted MX with MX_STARTUP
- - I can still Telnet/Ftp to foo.bar.one, the problem only seems to be
- when I use MX
- - After I REMOVEd the host aliases from my local host name database,
- we had no problem sending messages to "user@foo.bar.one"
- ---
- Ben Armstrong, Software Development bus: (902)422-1973
- Dymaxion Research Ltd., fax: (902)421-1267
- Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3J 1R2 Internet: bg@dymaxion.ns.ca
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