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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
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Posted: Sun Sep 29 21:10:41 1985
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References: <911@turtlevax.UUCP> <32@pyramid.UUCP>
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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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 Anton 

	Erik E. Fair	ucbvax!fair	fair@ucbarpa.BERKELEY.EDU