dave@andromeda.UUCP (Dave Bloom) (03/03/86)
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Our system name is andromeda, a Pyramid 90x running Berkeley's UUCP.
We are talking to a 3B2 (SystemV.2) running Hunney-Danber (sp?) UUCP.
The problem is this:
When andromeda establishes a connection, it sends an Shere
specifying "androme". If the Systems/Permissions files on
the 3B2 specify "andromeda" as the system name, we get a
"You are unknown to me" message on the Pyramid side. Yet if
we specify "androme" as the system name, mailers return an
"unknown system" message when a 3B2 user tries something like
'mail andromeda!root'.
Right now we are set up as "androme" on the 3B, but would like the REAL
name (andromeda) to be accepted by 3B mailers. Any ideas from you net
folks? We have little or no documentation on H-D uucp.
Thanx.
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ihnp4!packard / "You're never alone with a schizophrenic...."honey@down.FUN (Peter Honeyman) (03/04/86)
the berkeley uucp is broken. if your host name is andromeda, your uucp should say so. if you have pyramid sources, you can fix this easily. (write for details.) as an expedient, ask the 3b2 administrator to add a dummy line for androme to his Systems file. peter ps: let's not forget the ber in honey danber. he may be a hopeless drug addict now, but in his day he was a hell of a hacker, er, software engineer.
philip@axis.UUCP (Philip Peake) (03/05/86)
In article <108@andromeda.UUCP> dave@andromeda.UUCP writes: ><> >Our system name is andromeda, a Pyramid 90x running Berkeley's UUCP. >We are talking to a 3B2 (SystemV.2) running Hunney-Danber (sp?) UUCP. >The problem is this: > > When andromeda establishes a connection, it sends an Shere > specifying "androme". If the Systems/Permissions files on > the 3B2 specify "andromeda" as the system name, we get a > "You are unknown to me" message on the Pyramid side. Yet if > we specify "androme" as the system name, mailers return an > "unknown system" message when a 3B2 user tries something like > 'mail andromeda!root'. This sounds like a bug in the Pyramid uucp to me. As I understand the current uucp situation, it is only the first 6 characters of a site name which should be considered significant. This is the result of some random decision generator at AT&T. If you have a uucp system which lookes at more than the first six characters you are going to have problems .... Philip Peake ------------------------------------------------- PS don't blame me, send all complaints to AT&T !