Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!lethe!becker!bdb
From: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc
Subject: Re: Strange polling results.
Keywords: one way traffic?
Message-ID: <2336@becker.UUCP>
Date: 17 Jan 90 17:26:52 GMT
References: <251@comcon.UUCP>
Reply-To: bdb@becker.UUCP (Bruce Becker)
Organization: G. T. S., Toronto, Ontario
Lines: 39

In article <251@comcon.UUCP> roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
|
|I'm still in the testing stages with my UUCP link, and I'm having a
|strange bit of behaviour.
|
|For the time being, my site is carried as NEVER by the host I connect
|with. I do the polling from my side, and when I do, outgoing traffic
|travels easily along the way. However, I don't get any _incoming_
|traffic, even though there is traffic for my site queued on the host.
|[...]
|I had the host poll my site, with pending traffic in both directions,
|and both directions were delivered normally. This artifact only appears
|when I poll inward, and appears to be some behaviour on the part of the
|host.
|[...]
|How do I get the host to send pending traffic when I poll?

	One oft-encountered form of unix uucp
	has a database of explicit permissions
	associated with each machine and uucp
	login-id to which it connects.

	There is a parameter, SENDFILES, which
	control whether or not a remote system
	can receive locally queued work when it
	has initiated the connection.

	It looks like your host system has been
	configured "SENDFILES=call", either
	explicitly or by default. The behavior
	you want is gotten by specifying
	"SENDFILES=yes".

Cheers,
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