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It appears that for YuckBox PinkBook you need to:
chgrp niftp /dev/eth* /dev/isocontrol
chmod g+w /dev/eth* /dev/isocontrol
incomming calls from the net may not correctly translate to mnemonic form saying
"unknown host". If so you may have a bug in pink book kernel: basically if the
transport address ends with numbers (which is true for all machines in the LAN running
pink book) the last character of the transport service may be set to \200 and thus the
reverse_lookup do not match.
A temporary HACK is to put \200 in the UAIEF file (Yuck).
The YuckBox "directory" file is still needed for the disgusting internals of tlisten.
Simon Cooper <spc@uk.ac.cam.amtp.atm> has it running under Sun's Ed Yuckbox PB.
For more details contact Khalid Sattar <admin@uk.ac.ex.cs> (and let pb know)
my yuck box "directory" file contains entries for all local
sites that can talk pink book. And then only one other entry
is required for the pinkbook to x25 gateway machine.
That is all that is required in the "directory" file. But
other changes need to be done to the dbm1 file. Our
gateway machine uses local format which take addresses of the
form
DTE.lfmXsitename
where DTE is the ethernet address of the gateway machine (and
may have LSAP appended - in our case we use 7e), X is the
context (b -bluebook, g - greybook etc) and sitename is in
abbreviated form. eg
0000605990047e.lfm.guk.ac.cam.cl
so after extracting the dbm1 file from DERFIL1 I apply a small
script to convert each entry in mail and ftp context to this form.
then follows the UAIEF file which contains the local pinkbook
machines plus news context machines.