Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!pawl!shadow From: shadow@pawl.rpi.edu (Deven T. Corzine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: DNET on Ultrix v3 with Trailblazer (maybe) .. Message-ID: Date: 21 Jul 89 04:17:19 GMT References: <8907210356.AA19957@postgres.Berkeley.EDU> Sender: usenet@rpi.edu Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 22 In-reply-to: dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU's message of 21 Jul 89 03:56:48 GMT On 21 Jul 89 03:56:48 GMT, dillon@POSTGRES.BERKELEY.EDU (Matt Dillon) said: Deven> Contrary to Matt's claim that the Unix-domain sockets fail when Deven> network-mounted, my DNETDIR is ~/.dnet/ [not actually using Deven> "~"] which is in an NFS-mounted partition. It works fine. Deven> [SunOS V4.0 BSD Unix] Matt> Turns out that it does work. But only the machine that Matt> created the socket can connect to it. :-) Well, of *course*... They're Unix-domain sockets, implemented internally. But the fact that the actual file system link to the socket is on an NFS partition doesn't affect it. Deven -- Deven T. Corzine Internet: deven@rpi.edu, shadow@pawl.rpi.edu Snail: 2214 12th Street, Troy, NY 12180 Phone: (518) 271-0750 Bitnet: deven@rpitsmts, userfxb6@rpitsmts UUCP: uunet!rpi!deven Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.