HECnet June 2019

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Routing issue?

by Keith.Halewood＠pitbulluk.org

Hi, I don't appear to be receiving any routing information from 31.3 (PYRTR) Keith

5 years, 5 months

Multinet 5.5 issues on VMS 7.3 (VAX) under SIMH

by Keith.Halewood＠pitbulluk.org

Hi, Is anybody running the NPTD functionality in Multinet 5.5 on VAX VMS 7.3 (under SIMH)? If so, how did you get it to work. I switched it on with a simple NTP.CONF and tried to query it. The logfile doesn't change much and I/O counts go up slowly. My attempts to query it usually result in a traceback. I'm a bit concerned by the lack of an NTPDATE command mentioned in the documentation, despite having done a full install. The timezone facility is a bit primitive too. I'm thinking of giving up with it. I have local TCP services on the machines hosting SIMH instances. One of them returns a local time string in VMS format, so I may make use of that in an RDATE-like fashion. Keith

5 years, 5 months

DECnet broken with 4.4.0-151 kernel

by bob＠jfcl.com

Anybody else out there running DECnet on Linux? I recently upgraded from the 4.4.0-148 kernel to 4.4.0-151 and find that DECnet does not work with the latter. Connections always seem to hang at minimum, and frequently cause kernel panics. Has anybody found a fix for this, or is this the end of the road? BTW, 4.4.0-151 was released recently to fix the TCP SACK kernel panic problem. Bob

5 years, 5 months

Processing time for Hobbyist Licenses

by mholmes10＠hotmail.com

Anyone familiar with the timeline for renewing Hobbyist licenses lately? I registered on the HPE site. In the past the turnaround was very quick, but it's been several days and nothing; so curious if this is the new timeline. thanks Mike

5 years, 5 months

Announcing TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS

by bqt＠softjar.se

Time for a new release announcement of TCP/IP for RSX-11M-PLUS. Highlights: This release have some rather significant work done on the mail system. There have also been some minor improvements on TCP, HTTPD, FTP and libraries. Detailed information on things that have been done since the last release: TCP: . Improved retransmission handling at Fin Wait 2. . Correct keepalive handling at Fin Wait 2. . Improved processing at socket close. TCP sockets should do keepalives, and not probes when in Fin Wait 2. Libraries: . Corrected program section attributes on some modules in BQTLIB, so that they work correctly also on overlaid programs. . Bugfix in BQTC library. Recent changes to quadtime to string conversion had introduced a potential buffer overflow error. FTPD: . Change FTPD read command processing to avoid a race condition. HTTPD: . Reworked logging routines to fix some performance issues. . Bugfix in IND forms library for CGI scripts. MAILD: . Changed mailbox format for better performance. . Changed location for mail spool file. . Added checking for /NOBRO for new mail announcements. . Increased stack size since the task sometimes ran out of stack. . Reduced static data memory use. . Changed overlay scheme to make more memory available. . Added various error checks in the code. . Changed usage so all queue operations requires a user with privileges. . Added label handling for mails. . Added copying of sent mails to self. . Improved error mail generation in MAILD. . Added mail size information to mails. . Added conversion tool for old mailboxes. *** Important notice about MAILD *** The changes to MAILD are not seamless. When installing the new version, the mailbox update program should be run, in order to upgrade all user mailboxes to the new mailbox format. The task for this is MBXUPD.TSK. There are no issues with running this task several times. A mailbox that has already been updates will not be modified anymore by the update task. The location of the mail queue file have moved. After installation, you could just move the mail queue file over to the new place, or else re-initialize the mail system. The mail queue file name is MAILQUEUE.DAT, and it was previously located at MAIL$:, but it should be moved to LB:[1,7] instead. Once the mailboxes have been updated, and the mail queue file have been moved/recreated, the mail system have been updated, and you are ready to use the new mail system. *** Important notice about MAILD *** As usual, the distribution is available from: ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.dsk ftp://mim.update.uu.se/bqtcp.tap ftp://ftp.update.uu.se/pub/pdp11/rsx/tcpip/tcpip.dsk The documentation is also available through ftp on Mim, or also at http://mim.update.uu.se/tcpipdoc I hope people find this update useful. While there are no really critical issues that have been solved, I still recommend people to update, since this new version do contain improvements that are beneficial and as far as I know there are no issues or problems updating to this newest version. Johnny -- Johnny Billquist || "I'm on a bus || on a psychedelic trip email: bqt at softjar.se || Reading murder books pdp is alive! || tryin' to stay hip" - B. Idol

5 years, 6 months

HECnet and LCM+L

by Keith.Halewood＠pitbulluk.org

Hi, Just a quick question - has anybody (else) approached the Living Computers Museum and Labs (in Seattle) with regard to getting their VAX (Rosie) and/or other DECnet-capable kit onto HECnet? Not so long ago, they 'hid' their systems behind a ssh gateway because of the number of attacks they were suffering via telnet. It makes it rather difficult to move code onto Rosie... well, perhaps more inconvenient than difficult, especially if all I want to copy are binaries. Just asking... Keith

5 years, 6 months

Decnet on RSX-11

by kurt＠hamm.me

So, I added this command to the startup.cmd: @LB:[IPNET]INS.CMD. I didn't modify the file yet. I wanted to see what it would do The result after rebooting was this: >INS LB:[IPNET]MLTCOM/UIC=[1,54]/PRO=[RW,RW,,] >INS LB:[IPNET]MLTNET >INS LB:[IPNET]MLTCFG >NCP SET PROC IP TOP NCP -- Set failed, unrecognized component, Process >NCP SET LIN IP-0-* ALL NCP -- Set failed, invalid identification format, Line >MNC SHO VER Initialize common NT.IP not found. Exiting... >MNC SET CIR IP-0-0 TCA HOST MIM.UPDATE.UU.SE:7705 PORT 0 Initialize common NT.IP not found. Exiting... >NCP SET CIR IP-0-0 STA ON NCP -- Set failed, invalid identification format, Circuit There are lots of errors, so I am not sure where to start. Any advice would be appreciated. Kurt

5 years, 6 months

Multinet Mail

by kurt＠hamm.me

I wasn't sure where to post this question, so I thought I would start here. I have two simh vax3900 machines. Larry and Moe. Larry is the HECNet router for Moe. When I send email from Larry (via SMTP), the *return *email address is correct (SYSTEM at LARRY.MYDOMAIN.COM. When I send email from Moe (to LARRY::SMTP%"user at domain.com"), the return email address is: SYSTEM at SCSSYSTEMID.MYDOMAIN.COM. Why is Moe using the SCSSYSTEMID instead of the system name? *I am missing something.* *Kurt*

5 years, 6 months

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