From: bud@rescon.UUCP (Alex Batyi)
Newsgroups: phl.misc,news.admin.misc
Subject: Paths with domains
Date: 8 Jan 93 07:30:10 GMT
Followup-To: phl.misc
Distribution: phl
Organization: Resurrection Connection BBS, Bristol, PA

I haven't been able to read news.admin for a while so
forgive me for asking potentially stupid questions.

Background: Xenix386 Bnews2.11P17 BBS and Utility machine for
The Philadelphia Area Computer Society.  

Maybe it's the hour.  (Oh God not another one of those posts!)
Maybe it's how long I've been staring at these little blue letters.
Did ya ever get the feeling?  Everything was running SO WELL!...

This is going to be a long one.  I'll get it all out of my system
in one swell foop.  Please nobody tell me to go get Cnews?  Please?

I just noticed news unbatching from king.mcs.drexel.edu.  "king" to
our little Xenix386 box.  Then I noticed all the news spooled up
to go to king.  Nobody but king is sending us this much news right
now.  That made me sit up.  Not much could at this hour.  Ok, no
biggie.  Bnews thinks news is coming in from king.mcs.drexel.edu not
king.  Why am I nervous?  Why?  Because the more I think about it
the more it seems like we got a problem.  I can't just change everything
to king.mcs.drexel.edu or the filenames will get too long.  Do they
truncate and assume no collisions?  How would HDB Systems files take
to a domain type name?  No way, SHere=king not king.mcs.drexel.edu!

And that is just the beginning.  If you are here so far and
are saying, "The jerk, all he has to do is..." then DON'T GO AWAY!

I have been doing this for a few years and have never had to deal
with an actual connection to an machine that 1) Isn't registered
with the rutgers mapping project and 2) Sends us mail via MX name
server?  How do I tell them how to list me in "The maps(tm)"?
Will drexel!pacs work?  Should I just send mail or call the guy
listed in drexel's map as poster?  (If you know this specifically,
get in touch with myself and if you need details on your end get
in touch with mcain@king)  I can't muck about with the politics.
I just have to publish a map entry and catch hell if the mail doesn't
get through.  Thanks for name serving us, whomever you are.
I did get mail through by sending outside!drexel!pacs or was it
outside!drexel!king!pacs.  When I tried to verify it recently
it bounced at vu-vlsi saying it didn't know drexel.

Back to the news problem.  I am running Bnews2.11 Patch level 17.
I need to know where I can ftp Patch 18 and 19.  If you know how
to stop the news from doing the unnecessary loop back to king
please have it in my mailbox when I wake up.  I know there were
more questions...

Oh yes, If this gets to you by a long path and you are close by
and you are a phl uucp site and can Poll pacs I'd like to tighten
up the pha/pa web.  We are a not for profit educational society
very into telecom and computers.  However we have to pay measured
business rate for our phone lines and policy has been not to call
out.  I'm sure "The powers that be" will ok a Poll here or there.

We have close to 100 Meg free space in the news spool and we expire
at 14 days.  Wanna help fill it up?  :-)
-- 
   AJB         N3JQB        +1 215 785 6644             UUCP:rescon!bud
   Quote:"If you lose your memory, forget it!"       bud@pacs.pha.pa.us
   Proverb:"The sooner you get behind, the longer you have to catch up."