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 ucbvax.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!ucbvax!usenet From: usenet@ucbvax.ARPA (USENET News Administration) Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp Subject: Re: 4.3 UUCP message: "You are unknown to me" prevents connection Message-ID: <10491@ucbvax.ARPA> Date: Sun, 29-Sep-85 21:10:41 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.10491 Posted: Sun Sep 29 21:10:41 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 1-Oct-85 03:22:30 EDT References: <911@turtlevax.UUCP> <32@pyramid.UUCP> Organization: University of California at Berkeley Lines: 30 In article <32@pyramid.UUCP> csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes: > >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. The last `solution' listed will prevent turtlevax from speaking to any System III or System V UNIX system in the world. You see, they all have this array: char Rmtname[SYSNAME]; /* approximately; from memory */ where SYSNAME is defined to be 8. Guess what happens when you stuff 14 characters in there? ``C knows no bounds'' - Jeff AntonErik E. Fair ucbvax!fair fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU