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> geoff@zswamp.UUCP (Geoffrey Welsh) writes:
>>Although xenitec now has a 64 kbps ISDN to Hookup, I don't think that UUNET 

I don't speak for XeniTec Consulting.  That part of my comment was not meant 
to be particularly noteworthy. 

eastick@mcd.on.ca (Doug Eastick) writes:
> routes to ns.xenitec.on.ca still show thru kitchener.uunet.ca.  FYI.

nslookup reports UUNET Canada and UUNET as 20- and 30-preference mail 
exchangers... but I don't know why.  For your information, traceroutes via 
UUNET are painfully slow:

/u/geoffw % uname
xenitec
/u/geoffw % traceroute hookup.net
traceroute to hookup.net (198.133.162.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  pipe (192.75.213.254)  60 ms  10 ms  10 ms
 2  p400t.wat.hookup.net (198.133.162.8)  250 ms  520 ms  30 ms
 3  nic.wat.hookup.net (198.133.162.1)  30 ms  30 ms  30 ms
/u/geoffw % traceroute -w 300 uunet.ca
traceroute to uunet.ca (142.77.1.254), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  142.77.5.1 (142.77.5.1)  2220 ms  63450 ms  41700 ms
 2  kitchener-ethernet0.backbone1.kitchener.uunet.ca (142.77.7.4)  1530 ms  
1540 ms  1960 ms
 3  kitchener-serial1.backbone2.toronto.uunet.ca (192.197.160.57)  65720 ms  
64710 ms  15080 ms
 4  main-e21.wf.toronto.uunet.ca (142.77.15.4)  12700 ms  64220 ms  1850 ms
 5  uunet.ca (142.77.1.254)  55170 ms  4270 ms  62160 ms
/u/geoffw %

Can you believe some of those times?!?

It would appear that, despite xenitec's use of UUNET mail exchangers, the 
preferred outbound IP route is via Hookup.

> no affiliation other than 
> ....a happy uunet.ca customer

I remember frequent pre-annoucements of planned down time and post-
annoucements of unplanned down time.  I haven't noticed either recently... nor 
have I had trouble getting into or out of xenitec.

-- 
         Geoffrey Welsh, Senior Developer, InSystems Technologies Inc.
        geoff@zswamp.uucp, [xenitec.on.ca|m2xenix.psg.com]!zswamp!geoff
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      before the government finishes outgrowing the need for the people.