Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!ut-sally!husc6!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UCAR.EDU (Greg Woods) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: 4.3 uucp w/TCP troubles Message-ID: <762@hao.UCAR.EDU> Date: Tue, 30-Jun-87 13:41:29 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.762 Posted: Tue Jun 30 13:41:29 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Jul-87 05:36:45 EDT Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 40 Keywords: TCP UUCP We just recently converted to 4.3BSD (from 4.2) and, after wrestling with 4.3's insistance on having fully qualified domain names for everything, I have gotten just about everything to work as it used to. The one major exception is outgoing uucp connections that run over TCP links (please no flames about how I shouldn't do this and how SMTP is so much better; I'm well aware of that but simply don't have the time to mess with my sendmail.cf file right now). What happens is that uucico times out in "tcpopen". It isn't routing or the name server, because "nslookup" finds these hosts just fine, and telnet works (even to port 540, uucpd) for all these hosts. The problem occurs with EVERY host that we connect to for uucp over TCP. Incoming connections from all these hosts work fine, and outgoing connections via the modem also work fine. I had to change my L.sys file to add fully qualified domain names, or I would get "UNKNOWN HOST", but having gotten past that hurdle, I now see TIMEOUT, as follows: woods seismo (6/29-13:35-23579) DEBUG (Local Enabled) woods seismo (6/29-13:35-23579) NO CALL (RETRY TIME NOT REACHED) RETRY TIME (600) NOT REACHED woods seismo (6/29-13:35-23579) continuing anyway (debugging) finds (seismo) called getto: call no. seismo.css.gov for sys seismo Using TCP to call bsdtcpopn host seismo.css.gov, port 540 TCP CLOSE called woods seismo (6/29-13:35-23579) TIMEOUT (tcpopen) woods seismo (6/29-13:35-23579) FAILED (call to seismo ) The L.sys line (minus security info) we use is: seismo Any TCP uucp seismo.css.gov If anyone has the faintest idea what I might be doing wrong, I sure would appreciate any hints. --Greg -- UUCP: {hplabs, seismo, nbires, noao}!hao!woods CSNET: woods@ncar.csnet ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA INTERNET: woods@hao.ucar.edu