Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site mnetor.UUCP Path: utzoo!utcs!mnetor!clewis 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 Lines: 32 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, UUCP: {allegra, linus, ihnp4}!utzoo!mnetor!clewis BELL: (416)-475-8980 ext. 321