* [TUHS] UREP
@ 2019-07-09 20:08 Lyndon Nerenberg
2019-07-10 5:44 ` arnold
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From: Lyndon Nerenberg @ 2019-07-09 20:08 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs
Back in the day I had the pleasure of firing up what was possibly
the last North American BITNET node (certainly the last one on
NetNorth), on a Sun 3/xxx deskside server running SunOS 3.5(+).
(AUCS, at Athabasca U.)
I'm curious to know if the UREP source code that drove that link
ever escaped. I recall it being licensed code at the time, but
from academia vs. a commercial product. I don't know if that also
applied to the bisync serial driver.
--lyndon
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* Re: [TUHS] UREP
2019-07-09 20:08 [TUHS] UREP Lyndon Nerenberg
@ 2019-07-10 5:44 ` arnold
2019-07-10 19:31 ` Adam Thornton
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From: arnold @ 2019-07-10 5:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: tuhs, lyndon
Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca> wrote:
> Back in the day I had the pleasure of firing up what was possibly
> the last North American BITNET node (certainly the last one on
> NetNorth), on a Sun 3/xxx deskside server running SunOS 3.5(+).
> (AUCS, at Athabasca U.)
>
> I'm curious to know if the UREP source code that drove that link
> ever escaped. I recall it being licensed code at the time, but
> from academia vs. a commercial product. I don't know if that also
> applied to the bisync serial driver.
>
> --lyndon
You don't want to see the source code. We ran it at Emory, and I
remember that I had to work with it, and after every dive into the
code, I felt like I needed a shower afterwards.
I don't remember the details, only the strong associated emotions. :-(
Arnold
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* Re: [TUHS] UREP
2019-07-10 5:44 ` arnold
@ 2019-07-10 19:31 ` Adam Thornton
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From: Adam Thornton @ 2019-07-10 19:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: arnold; +Cc: tuhs
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I have sort-of resurrected the bitnet zone file.
SInce bitnet is not an official TLD you will need to specify the nameserver, since the root won’t forward it.
So, grab a copy with:
dig IN AXFR bitnet @ns.fsf.net
Note that the old zone file had underscores in the hostnames. Anywhere you see a dash here, it should be an underscore to be the correct bitnet name.
bit.net <http://bit.net/> is still alive (from the IP address it’s still a machine at Princeton) serving a document explaining the bitnet history.
Adam
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