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Article #478Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route)
From: Peter da Silva
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 13:46
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 13:46
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Assuming all the RFCs are followed, then someone at site A can provide a valid source route which is converted to a bang path. So you have no way of knowing whether a bang path was originally a source route or not. If the intent was that bang paths and source routes were not the same thing, converting one to the other would seem a bad idea. It seems to me that while the letter of the law would not require it, the spirit implies a symmetry between bang paths and source routes. It's impolite to break this symmetry. What do gateways do with bang paths? Convert them to source routes? -- Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation. Business: peter@ficc.uu.net, +1 713 274 5180. | "A char, a short int, and Personal: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com. `-_-' | an int bit-field were walking Quote: Have you hugged your wolf today? 'U` | through the forest..."
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!bellcore!texbell!sugar!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route) Summary: Question... Message-ID: <5075@ficc.uu.net> Date: 19 Jul 89 13:46:09 GMT References: <562@daitc.daitc.mil> <12167@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <461@nirvo.UUCP> Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 18