Sorry There was supposed to be a [2] following the name of the "man of steel".
Chris Mason On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 07:16:54 -0500, Chris Mason <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ian > >... and "before" was when you used VTAM obviously and probably >understood "USS" to mean "Unformatted System Services".[1] > >The fact that you hark back to the good old days may indicate that you retain >the entirely reasonable expectation that, if data can find its way from A to B, >it should jolly well be able to find its way back from B to A - a "given" in >the >connection-oriented SNA world. > >Regrettably, thanks, I was told, to Iosef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, aka >Stalin and his propensity for aiming WMD at the US, the network invented to >cater for the mass destruction of communication facilities which could result >from a launch of these weapons, IP is connectionless. > >This is all a massively verbose way to hint that your problem may be simply >that the outbound route works but the inbound route does not. Thus, before >you go to all the trouble of tracing anything in the old "VTAM buffer" way, you >might like to try the traceroute command at the B node in order to find out >where the routing definitions are "broken". > >I hope you'll be able to say "I'll drink to that!" > >Chris Mason > >[1] I see my preference for this usage has attracted some notoriety; regular >contributor Timothy has used it as an example of the proper use of the list! > >[2] In a reassignment/redesign of the library at an education centre where I >used to work into a sort-of "internet cafe" without the coffee, a blank space >was left between two doors with busy corridors on two sides. It seemed >obvious to me - but not the local management - that it was the ideal location >for a bust of the person most responsible for inspiring the Internet. > >Chris Mason > >On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 23:49:31 +0100, Ian S. Worthington ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I've been asked to look at some problems communicating with an application >>running under USS from a z/linux system. >> >>Symptoms seem to be that the input's arriving and being processed, but the >>reply message isn't making it back. >> >>What's the best way of tracing ip comms under uss? When I used to do this >>before it was get a vtam buffer trace, but I'm not sure if there's a better >>way under uss. >> >>Suggestions welcome. >> >> >>ian >>... >> >>Ian S. Worthington, MBCS. >> >>me: http://isw.me.uk/ >>photos: http://gallery.isw.me.uk/ >> >>Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori, sed dulcius pro patria vivere, et >>dulcissimus pro patria biber. Ergo, bibiamo pro salute patriae. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
