Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!jenst
From: jenst@cernvax.UUCP (Jens Trier Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: Mail11v3's use of DECnet information ?
Summary: It doesn't runs DECnet at all
Message-ID: <1621@cernvax.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 90 15:01:38 GMT
References: <1612@cernvax.UUCP> <8929@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Organization: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
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In article <8929@shlump.nac.dec.com>, michaud@decvax.dec.com (Jeff Michaud) writes:
> 	The error text means exactly what it says.  It means that
> 	the remote node acknowleged our connect request for the
> 	mail-11 object (#27), but that it never accepted the
> 	connection, and the outgoing connection timer expired.  Ie.


How can the remote node acknowledge the connect request when it doesn't
run DECnet at all and hasn't been doing it for 10 minutes or so ?
(This happens both when the remote node is a VAX/VMS and a Ultrix RISC
system).

Jens Trier Rasmussen
CERN-CN/CS
jenst@cernvax.cern.ch