[4264] in SIPB bug reports
Re: "bwrite" or "bfinger" programs; talking interactively on Bitnet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (mhpower@MIT.EDU)
Sun Nov 21 16:27:59 1993
From: mhpower@MIT.EDU
To: schiu@MIT.EDU
Cc: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[4260] in SIPB bug reports"
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 93 16:25:52 EST
> ... using "bwrite userid@JPNWAS00", but there seems to be a problem when
>he tries to send me his messages. he told me that he had tried:
>TELL USER AT MITSIPB The text of the message, and
>SEND USER@MITSIPB The text of the message
>but they don't seem to work. and as for "tell", he gets no error messages
>(obviously).
> ... could it be that "some
>BITNET nodes don't recognize the name MITSIPB, and therefore can't send
>any messages to us."? (from online help page)
I don't think this is the case, since it appears that node JPNWAS00
can send messages to MITSIPB. In particular, it can send back replies
to bfinger commands ... if it didn't recognize the MITSIPB node name,
it wouldn't be able to do this:
athena% bfinger OKUMA@JPNWAS00
reply...
from: rcmd.charon@CHARON.MIT.EDU
signature: System Daemon AT JPNWAS00, via SIPB BITNET gateway
text: CPQ: OKUMA - DSC
One possibility is that there is an intermittent link somewhere in
between here and there. I would be interested in whether you can
receive replies to the bfinger command at around the same time that
the messages originated using "TELL SCHIU AT MITSIPB" seem to be lost.
If this is the case, we can investigate the problem further and try to
track down some other explanation. (Incidentally, there's essentially
no possibility that the syntax "SEND SCHIU@MITSIPB" would be correct
from that system.)
Also, the username OKUMA above is Daiichi Honma, the person at Waseda
University who is responsible for the JPNWAS00 BITNET connection.
Matt
