H-D UUCP Question

[Philip Peake]

In article <108 at andromeda.UUCP> dave at andromeda.UUCP writes:
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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:
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>	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

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PS don't blame me, send all complaints to AT&T !