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Article #5079Re: Another example why not to re-route
From: Piercarlo Grandi
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1988 22:27
Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1988 22:27
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In article <VIXIE.88Dec14065701@bacchus.pa.dec.com> vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
Unido's policy is to reroute based on the facts that (a) they have to pay
lots of money for the transatlanctic crossings -- and in fact they charge
this back to other German sites, and (b) the German namespace is totally
controlled and there can be no duplicate host names.
In essence, they don't run a USENET, they run an INTERNET type of thing, i.e
a controlled environment in which "relative addressing, source routing" can
be replaced by "abolute names, dynamic routing".
The european uucp network is entirely based on these assumptions.
Unfortunately, these and other factors tend to make the european uucp
network tree shaped as well, with choke points at the non leaf nodes.
--
Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk
Sw.Eng. Group, Dept. of Computer Science UUCP: ...!mcvax!ukc!aber-cs!pcg
UCW, Penglais, Aberystwyth, WALES SY23 3BZ (UK)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncrlnk!uunet!mcvax!ukc!strath-cs!dcl-cs!aber-cs!pcg From: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: Another example why not to re-route Message-ID: <426@aber-cs.UUCP> Date: 17 Dec 88 22:27:24 GMT Reply-To: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Distribution: eunet,world Organization: CS Dept., University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK (Disclaimer: my statements are purely personal) Lines: 18