Determining the Remote and Local Stations

Determining the Remote and Local Stations

Typically, the local station is the station that initiates the UUCP connection. The remote station is the station that responds to UUCP connection requests. However, with the arrival of uugetty (a program that allows bi-directional line usage), the distinction between the local and remote station is usually only the station name.

For our example, japan is the local station and us is the remote station.