[124743] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Sun Apr 4 15:18:53 2010
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1004041303070.38472@legolas.yyc.orthanc.ca>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 15:18:18 -0400
To: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 4, 2010, at 3:08 16PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>> File transfer wasn't multihop
>=20
> It was, for at least some versions (V2 and later?), if the =
intermediate site(s) allowed execution of the uucp command. 25 years on =
the brain is fuzzy on the details ...
You could certainly add uux and uux to the list of legal remote =
commands, but I confess that my memory is also dim about whether
uucp file a!b!c
would be translated automatically. It has indeed been a while...
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
