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- From: bud@rescon.UUCP (Alex Batyi)
- Newsgroups: phl.misc,news.admin.misc
- Subject: Paths with domains
- Message-ID: <721@rescon.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 07:30:10 GMT
- Followup-To: phl.misc
- Distribution: phl
- Organization: Resurrection Connection BBS, Bristol, PA
- Lines: 60
-
- I haven't been able to read news.admin for a while so
- forgive me for asking potentially stupid questions.
-
- Background: Xenix386 Bnews2.11P17 BBS and Utility machine for
- The Philadelphia Area Computer Society.
-
- Maybe it's the hour. (Oh God not another one of those posts!)
- Maybe it's how long I've been staring at these little blue letters.
- Did ya ever get the feeling? Everything was running SO WELL!...
-
- This is going to be a long one. I'll get it all out of my system
- in one swell foop. Please nobody tell me to go get Cnews? Please?
-
- I just noticed news unbatching from king.mcs.drexel.edu. "king" to
- our little Xenix386 box. Then I noticed all the news spooled up
- to go to king. Nobody but king is sending us this much news right
- now. That made me sit up. Not much could at this hour. Ok, no
- biggie. Bnews thinks news is coming in from king.mcs.drexel.edu not
- king. Why am I nervous? Why? Because the more I think about it
- the more it seems like we got a problem. I can't just change everything
- to king.mcs.drexel.edu or the filenames will get too long. Do they
- truncate and assume no collisions? How would HDB Systems files take
- to a domain type name? No way, SHere=king not king.mcs.drexel.edu!
-
- And that is just the beginning. If you are here so far and
- are saying, "The jerk, all he has to do is..." then DON'T GO AWAY!
-
- I have been doing this for a few years and have never had to deal
- with an actual connection to an machine that 1) Isn't registered
- with the rutgers mapping project and 2) Sends us mail via MX name
- server? How do I tell them how to list me in "The maps(tm)"?
- Will drexel!pacs work? Should I just send mail or call the guy
- listed in drexel's map as poster? (If you know this specifically,
- get in touch with myself and if you need details on your end get
- in touch with mcain@king) I can't muck about with the politics.
- I just have to publish a map entry and catch hell if the mail doesn't
- get through. Thanks for name serving us, whomever you are.
- I did get mail through by sending outside!drexel!pacs or was it
- outside!drexel!king!pacs. When I tried to verify it recently
- it bounced at vu-vlsi saying it didn't know drexel.
-
- Back to the news problem. I am running Bnews2.11 Patch level 17.
- I need to know where I can ftp Patch 18 and 19. If you know how
- to stop the news from doing the unnecessary loop back to king
- please have it in my mailbox when I wake up. I know there were
- more questions...
-
- Oh yes, If this gets to you by a long path and you are close by
- and you are a phl uucp site and can Poll pacs I'd like to tighten
- up the pha/pa web. We are a not for profit educational society
- very into telecom and computers. However we have to pay measured
- business rate for our phone lines and policy has been not to call
- out. I'm sure "The powers that be" will ok a Poll here or there.
-
- We have close to 100 Meg free space in the news spool and we expire
- at 14 days. Wanna help fill it up? :-)
- --
- AJB N3JQB +1 215 785 6644 UUCP:rescon!bud
- Quote:"If you lose your memory, forget it!" bud@pacs.pha.pa.us
- Proverb:"The sooner you get behind, the longer you have to catch up."
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