24 Mar
2017
24 Mar
'17
11:36 p.m.
On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 08:14:42AM +1000, Warren Toomey wrote:
Something seems to be trimming the hostname to seven
chars.
Answer: 4.3BSD uucp allows hostnames of 14 chars, but trims down to 7
for the dirnames in /usr/spool/uucp, presumably for HDB compatibility.
But uux, mail, news work with hostnames > 7 chars.
Cheers, Warren