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  • Has anyone else used UUCP on the go?

    From Molly A. McCollum@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jun 9 05:17:59 2024
    Hey all, I wanted to know if anyone else has this use case that I used
    UUCP for.

    For a while I had a WWAN card in one of my ThinkPads, and so I was able to
    have internet on the go (but not all the time due to poor service). On
    said ThinkPad, I had installed Postfix and UUCP to run a local mail
    server, which would then go out to a cheap $5 Contabo VPS I rented, which
    would DKIM sign the email and then send it out (also worked inbound too of course).

    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.

    Basically: It was perfect for my setup.

    I haven't touched the laptop that it was set up on in a while. (I only had
    a few trivial things connected to the emails under its domain.)
    That's why I used past tense.

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

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    Molly A. McCollum
    mam@SDF.org

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  • From Grant Taylor@21:1/5 to Molly A. McCollum on Sun Jun 9 12:10:35 2024
    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.

    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.

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

    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.

    Once tuned, it worked better for large files that took a while to send.
    Queue them with uucp, they would go to the Internet gateway quickly
    across the LAN and then slowly go out the slow Internet connection while
    I was off doing other things having shut the source notebook down.



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    Grant. . . .

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  • From lkh@21:1/5 to Grant Taylor on Mon Jun 10 06:00:12 2024
    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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    Laurens Kils-Hütten * lkh@sdf-eu.org * @lkh@social.sdfeu.org

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