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1 total messages Started by Stephen Nicoud Wed, 19 Jul 1989 21:04
Chaos v. TCP/IP
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Author: Stephen Nicoud
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 1989 21:04
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I've got a problem with the Explorer choosing chaosnet to access a host
when it should use TCP/IP.

Here's the situation.  My group's net is linked to another group's via
two tcp/ip routers.  We run tcp/ip and chaos here and they do likewise
over there.  We can only talk to each other via tcp/ip.  So far so good.

We maintain separate namespaces.  We have our hosts, they have their
hosts.  Additionally, to our namespace, we add only those hosts from the
other group that are their namespace servers (with only tcp/ip addresses
and services).  They do likewise by adding only the hosts that are our
namespace servers.  We also add the appropriate namespace class objects
and modify the namespace search list.

Now, if I want to access an Explorer in the other group, and that
Explorer is not one of their namespace servers, my Explorer uses the
host object provided by the other group's namespace.  But that object
contains a chaos address and since the desirability for chaos is higher
than tcp/ip the connect is attempted via chaosnet and thus fails.  Bad
news.  8^(

Somehow my Explorer needs to realize to try the connection via tcp/ip
and not chaosnet.  We would prefer not to have duplicate entries in both
namespaces or change the medium/service desirability, so short of that,
any ideas on a solution?
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