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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: <35@pyramid.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 23:59:54 EDT
Article-I.D.: pyramid.35
Posted: Mon Sep 30 23:59:54 1985
Date-Received: Thu, 3-Oct-85 05:07:28 EDT
References: <911@turtlevax.UUCP> <32@pyramid.UUCP> <10491@ucbvax.ARPA>
Reply-To: csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst)
Organization: Pyramid Technology, Mountain View, CA
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In article <10491@ucbvax.ARPA> fair@ucbvax.ARPA (Erik E. Fair) writes:
>In article <32@pyramid.UUCP> csg@pyramid.UUCP (Carl S. Gutekunst) writes:
>>Solution:
>> ...
>>		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?

I trust Erik, and he's one person I really don't want to contradict, but this
is simply not true. Every 4.2 system we talk to already does identify itself
with it's full name. From the 4.3 uucp README file, by Rick Adams:

+----------
|The maximum length of a site name has been changed from the old 7 to the
|14. This is the be compatible with the HoneyDanBer uucp (aka BNU 1) which
|is as close to a standard uucp as there is. Sites which have sitenames
|longer than 7 characters that only send you the first 7 characters are
|broken and should be fixed.
+----------

AT&T uucico does not have a problem with this, since it always uses sprintf
to load values into Rmtname, as in:

		sprintf(Rmtname, "%.6s", q);
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