[Info-vax] Abnormal DECNET proxy behaviour

[Marc Van Dyck]

Doing some system cleanup right now, among which DECNET proxies.
And stumbled on the following :

MC AUTHORIZE LIST/PROXY issues a file NETPROXY.LIS, where I can
find the line

NODE1.VMS.MYCOMPANY.COM::USER1
         USER1 (D)

Now, account USER1 on NODE1.VMS.MYCOMPANY.COM does not exist anymore.
So I want to remove that proxy.

When I do MC AUTHORIZE REMOVE/PROXY NODE1.VMS.MYCOMPANY.COM::USER1,
I get an error message telling me that this proxy does not exist.

There are some other cases (let's say 4 or 5) but all other proxies
I wanted to remove (more than 100) went away without issues.

Using copy&paste for the commands, so not a typo.

Digging a bit further, I find that
$ SEARCH /MATCH=AND netproxy NODE1, USER1 reports "no string matched"
but $ SEARCH /MATCH=AND net$proxy NODE1, USER1 reports a match.

So the two files seem desynchronized.

Where does that come from and how can I fix it ?

Thank you in advance,
Marc.

P.S.1 OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 on Itanium, DECnet over IP, latest TCP/IP 
version
P.S.2 No need to tell me how awful it is to still run DECNET, etc...

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Marc Van Dyck