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From: mouse@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu (der Mouse)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: UUCP via TCP/IP
Message-ID: <1991Jun18.053104.18376@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>
Date: 18 Jun 91 05:31:04 GMT
References: <13482@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
Organization: McGill Research Centre for Intelligent Machines
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In article <13482@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>, tony@mpg.phys.hawaii.edu (Antonio Querubin) writes:

> I've seen mention of running uucp connections via IP in various
> places but have never found the exact details.

Since we have two such connections....

> I have a Sun 4 running SunOS 4.0.3 which has only an IP connection to
> the Internet and would like to be able to make uucp connections as
> well to those machines that can handle both uucp and TCP/IP.

Well, our UUCP machine is basically 4.3, not SunOS of any stripe.  I
can tell you what we've got set up, but I don't know what flavor of
UUCP Sun ships with 4.0.3, so I don't know how close it'll be to what
you need, if indeed your uucp is capable of running t protocol.

Here's an L.sys line (with crucial info changed, of course):

uucpname Any TCP uucp fullname.f.q.d.n ogin:~20--ogin:~20 login sword: password

The uucp code recognizes the string TCP in the third field as
indicating it should run over a TCP connection.

To make our machine accept incoming TCP connections, our inetd.conf
includes

uucp	stream	tcp	nowait	uucp	/etc/uucpd			uucpd

> Could someone point me to some docs that might explain how to setup
> uucp so that it routes over an IP connection?

Your UUCP doc set should explain this.  If it doesn't, bug your vendor.
(Don't you just love binary-only distributions?)

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