Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 4.3bsd-beta 6/6/85; site pyramid.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!qantel!dual!pyramid!csg From: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: 4.3 UUCP message: "You are unknown to me" prevents connection Message-ID: <32@pyramid.UUCP> Date: Thu, 26-Sep-85 19:58:23 EDT Article-I.D.: pyramid.32 Posted: Thu Sep 26 19:58:23 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 29-Sep-85 07:08:00 EDT References: <911@turtlevax.UUCP> Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) Organization: Pyramid Technology, Mountain View, CA Lines: 30 In article <911@turtlevax.UUCP> ken@turtlevax.UUCP (Ken Turkowski) writes: >Does anybody know why another site's 4.3BSD uucp won't let me log on, >and instead returns the message, "You are unknown to me"? How can this >be fixed? Does it have anything to do with turtlevax's longer-than 7 >or 8 character name? 4.3BSD UUCP has a compile option (named NOSTRANGERS in uucp.h) to verify that a connecting site is listed in L.sys. If it is not, you get the "You are unknown to me" message. 4.3 UUCP also uses the entire host name (well, the first 14 characters anyway). If turtlevax identifies itself as "turtlev", then the remote site will reject the connection even though "turtlevax" is in the L.sys file, because it doesn't know who "turtlev" is. Solution: 1) Make sure turtlevax is in the remote site's L.sys. 2) Use the new aliasing facility (L.aliases) to map "turtlev" to "turtlevax" on the remote site, or Get turtlevax to identify itself with the full hostname. -- -m------- Carl S. Gutekunst, Software R&D, Pyramid Technology Corp. ---mmm----- P.O. Box 7925 {allegra,decwrl,dual,nsc,sun}\ -----mmmmm--- Mt. View, CA {ihnp4,uiucuxa,uwvax}!pyrchi >!pyramid!csg -------mmmmmmm- 415/965-7200 topaz!pyrnj/