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stella bug with renaming hosts

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Chris Griffith)
Thu Apr 25 14:16:09 2002

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From: Chris Griffith <cg@MIT.EDU>
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Hi,

I think I might have found a bug in stella.  In a certain odd 
situation, stella fails to change a hostname but doesn't bring up an 
error message to report that failure.

Here's how to reproduce it.

1)  Begin with a host that has an alias name:

     Machine:  DESCOM.MIT.EDU
     Aliases:  EWALL.MIT.EDU
     Address:  18.90.1.47

2)  Next, remove the alias.
     athena% stella 18.90.1.47 -d EWALL.MIT.EDU

3)  Then, rename the host with the same name as the alias
      athena% stella 18.90.1.47 -rename "EWALL.MIT.EDU"

After this last command, stella exits without feedback, implying a 
successful completion.  However if you run "stella 18.90.1.47", you 
get:

     Machine:  DESCOM.MIT.EDU
     Address:  18.90.1.47

It would be nice if stella reported an error message in this situation.

Thanks,
-Chris

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