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In article <1992Jun11.045011.9218@chinet.chi.il.us> prb@chinet.chi.il.us (Paul Botts) writes:
>I just got a piece of mail back that was going to a bitnet address which
>has reliably worked for ages (in the form clout!milton.bitnet!user).
>It was marked "no path to host" or something like that.
>Moreover, uupath milton.bitnet from here now returns "unknown host."
>
>What gives?

I can go check what the UofC clout node believes that milton.bitnet should
translate to; but I can explain what's going on here.  Since Chinet talks
directly to clout, which has the choice of delivery via the Internet or modem,
it's using clout as its smart host.  This has two advantages for Chinet; first,
it means that Randy doesn't have to maintain the paths database; and secondly,
it avoids the problems we've seen of long paths to sites being generated
because the local paths database doesn't realize there's a one-hop Internet
delivery route via clout.  The down side, unfortunately, is that you lose the
functionality of uupath and pathto.  Of course, they'd be lying about their
routing, anyway...

		Dave Ihnat
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