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From: greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Multiple ph# for uucp
Message-ID: <2124@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>
Date: 27 Mar 88 04:43:50 GMT
References: <304@csed-37.csed-1.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, Rancho Bernardo
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In article <304@csed-37.csed-1.UUCP> mohar@csed-1.UUCP (Mike Mohar) writes:
>Does anybody know how to tell UUCP that there are multiple phone
>numbers for a site it's trying to call.  The site I poll has 3 numbers
>and quite often they're busy and uucp quits when I'd like it to try
>the other phone numbers.

There will be doubtless many replies that say, "Put duplicate entries in
your Systems/L.sys file with different phone numbers."  This will work
\only/ \if/ the phone number is not a part of the login expect-send
sequences.  If you are in that boat, it is very hard to do.

UUCP distinguishes between two different times when it is evaluating
expect-send sequences (this assumes you have a UUCP that permits them
in more than one place, such as the Dialers file): when it is evaluating
the "login" information from Systems/L.sys, and all other times.  If
the latter fails, it assumes that it happened during the connection
sequence (that is, while establishing the connection between you and
the remote) and it will search for further entries, since they might
have a different connection path.  If it fails during the login
sequence, it stops, since further attempts at a login will presumably
also fail because the login/password is bad, or some such.

Thus, if you are forced to put "connection" information, such as phone
numbers, in the "login" sequencing area, your first dialing failure
will be fatal.
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-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo   Greg.Noel@SanDiego.NCR.COM  or  greg@ncr-sd