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Re: IMPORTANT! Possible Moira bug in cname handling code...

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dan Winship)
Tue Mar 31 10:46:12 1998

To: michael@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-moira@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 31 Mar 1998 09:23:35 EST."
             <Pine.GSO.3.96.980331091854.9558D-100000@snarfle-the-garthog.mit.edu> 
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 1998 10:46:06 EST
From: Dan Winship <danw@MIT.EDU>

> Somehow, a user was able to assign the alias of "mit.edu.mit.edu" to their
> host.

(You've always been able to do that.)

> Now, I can't seem to remove said alias.
> 
> Command: 3
> Delete this alias
> Alias Name (Cname): "MIT.EDU.MIT.EDU"
> Canonical Host Name: proto-clown
> moira: No records in database match query in delete_hostalias

do it without the quotes:

Command: 3
Delete this alias
Alias Name (Cname): mit.edu.mit.edu
Canonical Host Name: proto-clown

(I actually did that, so it's gone now.)

-- Dan

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