roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) (01/16/90)
I'm still in the testing stages with my UUCP link, and I'm having a
strange bit of behaviour.
For the time being, my site is carried as NEVER by the host I connect
with. I do the polling from my side, and when I do, outgoing traffic
travels easily along the way. However, I don't get any _incoming_
traffic, even though there is traffic for my site queued on the host.
Examining the host uulog shows the connection when I poll, and any traffic
received. It also shows the failed callouts ("WRONG TIME TO CALL") as
uucp tries to deliver the queued material. I turned the debug up really
loud on my side, and RTFM (Nutshell's Managing UUCP). Everything looks
perfectly normal, and my side is terminating with 'H' and receiving 'HY'
from the host.
I had the host poll my site, with pending traffic in both directions,
and both directions were delivered normally. This artifact only appears
when I poll inward, and appears to be some behaviour on the part of the
host.
My site: Waffle 1.60 on a XT, 2400 bps link
My host site: 386/ix
How do I get the host to send pending traffic when I poll?
(e-mail is ok... I can summarize later)
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In article <251@comcon.UUCP> roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) writes: | |I'm still in the testing stages with my UUCP link, and I'm having a |strange bit of behaviour. | |For the time being, my site is carried as NEVER by the host I connect |with. I do the polling from my side, and when I do, outgoing traffic |travels easily along the way. However, I don't get any _incoming_ |traffic, even though there is traffic for my site queued on the host. |[...] |I had the host poll my site, with pending traffic in both directions, |and both directions were delivered normally. This artifact only appears |when I poll inward, and appears to be some behaviour on the part of the |host. |[...] |How do I get the host to send pending traffic when I poll? One oft-encountered form of unix uucp has a database of explicit permissions associated with each machine and uucp login-id to which it connects. There is a parameter, SENDFILES, which control whether or not a remote system can receive locally queued work when it has initiated the connection. It looks like your host system has been configured "SENDFILES=call", either explicitly or by default. The behavior you want is gotten by specifying "SENDFILES=yes". Cheers, -- ,,,, Bruce Becker Toronto, Ont. w \$$/ Internet: bdb@becker.UUCP, bruce@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu `/c/-e BitNet: BECKER@HUMBER.BITNET _/ >_ "Money is the root of all money" - Adam