[124817] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: What is "The Internet" TCP/IP or UNIX-to-UNIX ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Mon Apr 5 13:07:22 2010
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <AF803635-EA8A-4E6D-B07F-CA55B4277162@cs.columbia.edu>
Date: Sun, 4 Apr 2010 18:51:11 -0700
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Apr 4, 2010, at 12:18 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
>=20
> On Apr 4, 2010, at 3:08 16PM, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
>=20
>>> 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 ...
>=20
>=20
> 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
>=20
> uucp file a!b!c
>=20
> would be translated automatically. It has indeed been a while...
>=20
IIRC, uucp file a!b!c did not work, only uucp file a!b. Email, OTOH,
was roughly translated automatically to uucp {qf,df} b!{qf,df} and
the other side knew to unpack qf/df and do the right thing.
Owen
