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From: roberts@edsews.eds.com (Ted Roberts)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: sending through an extra system
Keywords: inews send
Message-ID: <26422@edsews.eds.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 12:57:15 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: EDS/TSD - Troy, MI
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We are running bnews, connecting via uucp, and I have a configuration
question.  We connect to several sites, getting our feed from uunet
and then passing it on to others.  One of our sites, wanting to pass
on the favor, has another site to which they want to pass news.  They
are a bit different in their configuration however, since they connect
to us with one machine (their news server) and connect to other sites
with a different machine.  Therefore, we need to send news through
from their news server to their other local node, and then onward via
uucp to another site.  The layout is basically:

  our_site--->uucp--->them1--->tcp/ip--->them2--->uucp--->remote_site

our_site, them1, and them2 are all SUNs running OS4.0.3, I'm not sure
about the remote_site (I don't think it should matter anyway, to a
point).

I thought about perhaps using a uusend, although I don't know much
about running uucp over tcp/ip (although I've heard it can be done).
The problem here is I don't know if a uux can be made to work over
multiple hops.  I figure there's got to be a fairly simple way to
do this.  Maybe cnews has an easier method.  Ideas/solutions would
be appreciated.

-- 
Ted Roberts                         |  My opinions are not necessarily those
EDS Technical Systems Development   |  of my employer.  Does that mean I'm
roberts@eds.com                     |  wrong?
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