kak@stc-auts.UUCP (Kris Kugel) (03/11/88)
I'd like to get uucp to use our ethernet connection
to "Building 2" but I don't know how.
In investigating this, I managed to get "sendmail"
to connect from our local sun to our vax running ultrix
(a slightly downlevel ultrix, probably 2.0),
but not the other direction.
1. How do I make the ultrix sendmail aware of my sun?
(it always responds, "User unknown")
2. How can I alter uucp to take advantage of the ethernet?
(will eventually be talking to a BSD 4.3 machine)
We're running a BSD4.2 mail system on the ultrix vax,
but I'm missing the 4.2 documentation.
Any help would be welcome!
Thanks in advance,
Kris A. Kugel
Storage Tek: ...{ uunet!nbires, hao, ihnp4 }!stcvax!stc-auts!kak
"It is better to light one small cannibal than to torch the duchess"
P.S. please respond by e-mail.avolio@decuac.dec.com (Frederick M. Avolio) (03/13/88)
The sendmail problem sounds like you need to putz around with your sendmail.cf. There is no problem tlaking to/from any system via SMTP, but the sendmail.cf needs to be a proper sendmail.cf (one that knows about an SMTP mailer, for example). It sounds like you don't really want UUCP over TCP/IP (which is doable) but you want to transfer news. A better way is to use NNTP which works very nicely. An added feature is that it implements the ihave/sendme protocol so only those articles which must be sent are sent. (It does it in real time as opposed to how one can do this over real uucp dialup links which works but requires multiple phone calls, etc.) Fred