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<title>Dataforge UUCP</title>
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<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css" type="text/css">
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<div id="container">
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<h1>Dataforge UUCP</h1>
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<div id="nav">
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<ul class="menu">
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<li><a href="about.html">About Dataforge</a></li>
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<li><a href="manifesto.html">UUCP Manifesto</a></li>
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<li><a href="sites.html">Network Sites</a></li>
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<li><a href="http://uucp.dataforge.tk/~uucp/wiki/">Wiki</a><li>
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<li><div style="color: green"><a href="faq.html">FAQ</a></div></li>
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<center>
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<hr class="join">
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<h3><a href="join.html">Join Us!</a></h3>
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<h3>Frequently Asked Questions</h3>
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<b><i><u>Why UUCP?</u></i></b>
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UUCP has a great many virtues not found in other technologies such as rsync or scp. Transmission is asynchronous due to the
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bidirectional nature of links between UUCP sites. If changes are made on one site, those changes are replicated to participating
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sites with no intervention by an administrator. Additionally, sending data to remote systems does not require the sending system
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to know anything about the receiving end or network topology. Only a bang path is needed for transmission. Transmissions are done in batches, which makes
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the protocol very efficient over unreliable or slow links (ie; dial-up, satellite, 3G, etc). UUCP also merges diffs between files with
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no intervention, which makes it useful for distributing items such as news where others may frequently modify items. Unlike rsync or
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scp, there is no need for a central authority. Which makes UUCP truly distributed and decentralized.
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<b><i><u>Is UUCP secure?</u></i></b>
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Modern implementations of UUCP, such as Taylor UUCP, are very secure. On this UUCP network, transmissions are delivered over SSH,
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however, given the link agnosticism of UUCP, it could easily be sent over SSL or TLS. Authentication to the network occurs twice.
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First by SSH key exchange, and second by UUCP authentication. Additionally, each piece of data sent across the wire is GPG signed
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for integrity and proof of ownership. Since there is only one point of entry into the network, that greatly decreases its risk spread.
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Users can do whatever they please and the rest of the network won't be compromised. Additionally, UUCP is very verbose with its logging,
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which makes the protocol easily auditable.
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<b><i><u>Why doesn't this have a proper name?</u></i></b>
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Following past traditions of UUCP networks, the network at large has no real name. A name implies ownership, and nobody <i>owns</i> the network. Individual site
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networks are free to have a proper name, but the larger network doesn't. Just as the Internet doesn't have a real name.
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<b><i><u>Is this just a Linux thing?</u></i></b>
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NO! WHile the named Unix-to-Unix Copy suggests being a *nix only techology, implementations exists for non-unix systems, such as VMS,
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OS/2, z/OS, Windows and others. The UUCP code base is very portable and can be ran on a variety of operating systems and architectures.
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Everything from a PDP-11 to a giant mainframe.
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<b><i><u>Can anyone join?</u></i></b>
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YES! :D While having your own UUCP presense is not required, if you are an end-user, you can peer with any number of Tier 1 hosts.
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Tier 1 status is reserved for dedicated points-of-presents (see <a href="tier1.html">Tier 1</a> article)
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<b><i><u>It's link agnostic? Can I run it over tin cans and string?</u></i></b>
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You can peer with another UUCP site using any means of communication you wish. Whether that is a ham link, 3G, satellite, or
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even dialup. UUCP does not care about the medium in which it uses.
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<b><i><u>What happens if I try to lick it?</u></i></b>
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You'll feel a beautiful euphoria not previously known to man
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<b><i><u>How do I join?</u></i></b>
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Simply go to the join page and follow it's instructions. Select whether you wish to be a Tier 1 server, or a leaf node.
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