rick@uunet.UU.NET (Rick Adams) (05/22/87)
The UUNET project has been in service for a week providing news and mail service to 34 sites. Well over 100 sites have requested subscription information and the responses so far have been very enthusiastic. Overall, performance has been very good. Most sites are averaging about 1000 bps throughput on a 1200 bps modem and 1950 bps on a 2400 bps modem. The long delays observed with services like PC Pursuit have not been experienced. The machine availability has been 100% (i.e. no down time yet...). Source archive access should be available soon. We expect to provide an archive server similar to the others currently in use. The biggest problem encountered so far was determining that certain older uucps terminate the strings that they send to log in with a \n instead of a \r (This is a bug. It is fixed in 4.2/4.3 BSD and Honey DanBer at least). This \n confused the login program and 3 sites could not get logged in. Changing their L.sys entries to an explicit \r\c solved that problem. Following is a current uucp map entry for the uunet machine. ---rick [This is intended to be a progress report and not a commercial. If you want more information, send email to usenix!peter] #N uunet #S Sequent Balance 21000; Dynix 2.1.1 #O UUNET #C Rick Adams #E uunet!postmaster #T +1 703 276 7900 #P P.O. Box 2299, Berkeley, CA 94710 #L 38 53 40.5 N / 77 04 34.5 W #R Physically in Arlington, VA #W rick@seismo.CSS.GOV (Rick Adams); 20 May 87 #U seismo pcrat swlabs ccicpg lll-winken ukma tg iscuva madhat # # siamese twin # uunet seismo(1) # uunet usenix(DEMAND), micropro(DEMAND), rodan(DEMAND), ccicpg(DEMAND), grand(DEMAND), tg(DEMAND), peregrine(DEMAND), pcrat(DEMAND), ednor(DEMAND), tekbspa(DEMAND), housun(DEMAND), pilchuck(DEMAND), wp3b01(DEMAND), siia(DEMAND), oswald(DEMAND), swlabs(DEMAND), crdnl(DEMAND), hpda(DEMAND), quick(DAILY), epicb(DEMAND), unrvax(EVENING), lll-winken(DEMAND), desint(DEMAND), garfield(DEMAND), iscuva(DEMAND), hnsurg3(DEMAND), rosevax(DEMAND), virginia(DEMAND), madhat(DEMAND), ukma(DEMAND), ora(DEMAND), arnold(DEMAND), metasoft(DEMAND)