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- From: veale@Colorado.EDU (Anthony Veale')
- Subject: DECnet numeric addresses with 5.65+IDA
- Message-ID: <veale.722300588@coma>
- Keywords: DECnet numeric IDA
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
- Date: 20 Nov 92 23:03:08 GMT
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- Hello,
-
- We have recently started using sendmail 5.65 with IDA. We are running on
- a DECstation 3100 with Ultrix 4.2 (or possibly 4.2a) and DECnet is installed.
- We have our DECnet name defined, but no DECNETNODES or XTABLE defined.
-
- The problem I am having is in the rewriting of numeric DECnet addresses.
- If an address of the form area.node::user is given to sendmail it turns
- it into localhost::"user@area.node.dnet". It proceeds to connect to
- the correct host (area.node) but sends to localhost::"user@area.node.dnet"
- resulting in an infinite cycle of mailing.
-
- It appears to be using rulesets 3,2,14 for rewriting the recipient,
- even though 14 is the end ruleset for UUCP and 18 is for mail11. But
- 3,2,18 does no better. It creates a recipient of
- localhost::user%area.node.dnet.
-
- So the questions:
-
- 1) Does mail11v3 have some way of canonicalizing numeric DECnet addresses?
- And how to I convince sendmail to use it?
-
- (I have gone so far as to "grep -i mail11 /usr/man/man?/*" looking for
- any manual information on mail11v3. Nothing was returned. Well, it
- took a little more than one grep command, but you know what I mean.)
-
- 2) Is there a safe rewriting rule that can handle DECnet numeric- area.node
- form addresses? I want to prevent my users from addressing mail to
- user@text.text.dnet and confusing mail. I guess if they used numbers
- I would allow sendmail to try to connect.
-
- 3) DECnet numeric addresses that are NOT area.node form work. It is only
- a problem with the rewriting rule finding more than one token before
- the .dnet. Can math be done on the tokens? I.e. can a create something
- to do what I wanted (or part of it) from question 1? [Replacing
- area.node with area*1024+node.]
-
- I think a positive answer to any one of the three questions would probably
- suffice.
-
- --
- Anthony Veale' veale@coma.colorado.edu
- Professional Research Assistant (System Manager Assistant)
- Center for Astrophysics and Space Astronomy
- Univ. of Colorado at Boulder
-