From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: wkt@tuhs.org (Warren Toomey) Date: Sat, 25 Mar 2017 08:36:11 +1000 Subject: [TUHS] hostname limit in (4.3BSD) uucp? In-Reply-To: <20170324221442.GA16891@minnie.tuhs.org> References: <20170324221442.GA16891@minnie.tuhs.org> Message-ID: <20170324223611.GA20051@minnie.tuhs.org> On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 08:14:42AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote: > Something seems to be trimming the hostname to seven chars. Answer: 4.3BSD uucp allows hostnames of 14 chars, but trims down to 7 for the dirnames in /usr/spool/uucp, presumably for HDB compatibility. But uux, mail, news work with hostnames > 7 chars. Cheers, Warren -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 819 bytes Desc: not available URL: