Re: Has anyone else used UUCP on the go?

Grant Taylor <gtaylor@tnetconsulting.net> wrote:

On 6/9/24 04:17, Molly A. McCollum wrote:

Hey all, I wanted to know if anyone else has this use case that I used
UUCP for.

 
I have done this in the past.
 

yep, and this is exactly the use case I'm setting up on my laptop
right now.

I'm curious as to if anyone else used UUCP for this purpose. I like the
delay-tolerant networking and the polling style, because it means that
not everyone has to have a well-known address or always-online machine,
only the gateway does.

 
What you call "delay tolerant networking" I refer to as "hop-by-hop"
networking.  It is very nice to have, particularly when end-to-end
networking can't be established, much less maintained.

you could even establish a whole subdomain behind the uucp link
with FQDN's for each machine as far as email is concerned.

UUCP clearly still has it's advantages.

Anyways, I'm curious to see what uses anyone else has used for UUCP on
their own machines.

we're even setting up a small netnews exchange right now :D

My biggest use case was -- what you called -- delay tolerant networking
to send files between systems I used at home, work, and elsewhere.  It
worked particularly well when I was on the road and didn't have IP
connectivity (via port forwards from an unknown location) to systems
inside my home / office network.  I could send files via the VPS which
has a connection to my home and office and would relay files through
just fine.

That's interesting. I don't have a uucp capable machine in the office,
but it's intriguing.

Cheers,

lkh

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