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In article <1992Apr14.064848.4228@bohra.cpg.oz.au> als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman) writes:
>The word I have been hearing of late is that there are few (and getting fewer)
>people left around the ridges with any understanding of ACSnet and SUNIII 
>software (or even MHSnet?).  The backbones are mostly AARnet these days.  As 
>time goes by and links fail it gets harder to find someone who can put things
>right.
>
>For us ACSnet has broken down for the second time this year.  When our
>machine bohra in Hawthorn sends a message to munnari, only 10-20kms away, it
>goes fairly directly in only 2 hops.  Return messages go via Sydney!

Real distances don't alway equate to what the network thinks is the shortest
distance!

>Somewhere along this long return route messages are inclined to go astray.
>At the moment we can get no response from munnari.oz.  The last time this
>happened it was shown to be a fault with the return path
>munnari->basser->perch->ditmela.  At the moment the return path is supposed to
>be munnari->basser->ditmela.

Yep currently most of your messages are ending up at ANSTO, where I have to
manually reroute them to pta (which has a link to yarra, which is in
Melbourne).  I can't work it out either!  Part of the problem seems to lay
with metro, because messages bounce between basser and metro, before being
rerouted (manually?) via atom.  I have no idea why munnari wants to send
things via basser.

>Anyway it's still broken.  For us ACSnet is as good as gone.  Fortunately we 
>get mail and news via AARnet avoiding the bulk of ACSnet.
>To fetch files I can use ftpmail via uow, and they will be getting a lot of
>business from me.

As of today, I've rerouted about 100 messages from metro, some for bohra,
but most for monu6.  At a guess, someone came back after Easter and found
all these looping messages and has now rerouted them to me!

>I wonder how long until ACSnet fragments really badly, or will some kind 
>soul look into it?

This doesn't seem too different to the past.  It is just that some major
nodes are a little slower to respond to ACSnet problems these days.

								Frank