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- From: jvolpe@ncsa.uiuc.edu (James Volpe)
- Subject: SMTP from other cluster members
- Message-ID: <Bsvx32.I8F@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: jvolpe@mars.ncsa.uiuc.edu
- Sender: usenet@news.cso.uiuc.edu (Net Noise owner)
- Organization: Dow Chemical
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 1992 19:06:35 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- We have only one node here that runs Multinet. Recently, this node
- was added to a cluster. Now, since Multinet is only running on this
- one node, mail that is headed for SMTP, but sent from another node on
- the cluster does not make it to the node running Multinet. Here is
- our scenario:
-
- vax01 - running Multinet
- vax02 - part of the same cluster as vax01
-
- While logged into vax02, I need to send mail to a Unix machine; here
- is what happens:
-
- : vax02: mail
- :
- : MAIL> mail
- : To: vax01::smtp%"user@unix.machine"
- : %MAIL-E-ERRACTRNS, error activating transport SMTP
- : %LIB-E-ACTIMAGE, error activating image DSA101:[SYS2.SYSCOMMON.][SYSLIB]SMTP\
- : _MAILSHR.EXE;
- : -RMS-E-FNF, file not found
-
-
- Because vax01 and vax02 are part of the same cluster, vax02 assumes that
- it can deliver the mail locally. Since vax02 has no license to run
- Multinet, it bombs. I could set the MAIL$SYSTEM_FLAGS logical to have
- mail delivered over DECnet even if the sending and receiving nodes are
- part of the same cluster. Because this will increase traffic in our
- already saturated DECnet, we do not view it as an option.
-
- Any suggestions?
-
- Jim Volpe
- Dow Chemical
- jvolpe@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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