🚀 go-pugleaf

fitz@wang.com (Tom Fitzgerald) writes:

>> Dermot.Bradley@bbs.oit.unc.edu (Dermot Bradley) writes:
>> >I'm looking for somewhere that would provide UUCP access to Usenet.  What
>> >I need is somewhere that I can Telnet into ONLY USING THE DEFAULT PORT -
>> >i.e. I can't specify a port number!!.

>gtoal@ibmpcug.co.uk (Graham Toal) writes:

>> Any machine that offers a uucp connection will do it on the standard
>> port - uucp logins are just normal logins.

>This may be true in some cases, but not in general.  "Normal" telnet runs
>on port 23, and talks "telnet protocol"...

>UUCP connections generally come into port 540 [which doesn't do the telnet
protocol].

>Mr Bradley seems to be looking for a server on port 23 that doesn't try to
>use any real telnet protocol messages; and I don't know of such a thing.

No, Mr. Toal is right.  We have someone telnetting in via port 23 to do
uucp, and it works fine.  I have no idea how he sets things up from his
end, though.
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