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From: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.bugs.uucp
Subject: Re: 4.3 UUCP message: "You are unknown to me" prevents connection
Message-ID: <2281@mnetor.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 28-Sep-85 15:28:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: mnetor.2281
Posted: Sat Sep 28 15:28:37 1985
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Sep-85 16:44:55 EDT
References: <911@turtlevax.UUCP>
Reply-To: clewis@mnetor.UUCP (Chris Lewis)
Organization: Computer X (CANADA) Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Summary: 

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?

Does the other site have the name of your site in it's L.sys?
if not:
	4.3 UUCP has a define (NOSTRANGERS), causing uucico, when compiled 
	    with the defaults, to not accept calls from systems that
	    aren't in its L.sys file.  When I installed our (semi) 4.3
	    UUCP, I explicitly turned this "feature" off, though, now
	    that I've mentioned it publically, maybe I'd better turn it 
	    back on! (:-)).
if it does:
	Maybe it's the longer-than 7 or 8 problem, depending on what
	your system is.  We are running a version of 4.3 UUCP, and
	we have a 4.1 site with a 8 character name calling us without
	trouble.  Though, it's name gets truncated to 7 in the logs.
	We didn't have any trouble with them with us a 4.2 UUCP either.
	It could be that the NOSTRANGERS code plus a 7/8 bug causes
	the problem.  If their site does have NOSTRANGERS on, AND
	you are in their L.sys, maybe they should try with NOSTRANGERS off.

Good luck!

(Boy do I like 4.3 UUCP, though I wish it was a little smarter with
X.25 PADS!)
-- 
Chris Lewis,
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