Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!cmcl2!husc6!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!linus!philabs!micomvax!musocs!mcgill-vision!mouse From: mouse@mcgill-vision.UUCP (der Mouse) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: No wonder ihnp4 is overloaded Message-ID: <591@mcgill-vision.UUCP> Date: Sun, 4-Jan-87 03:55:22 EST Article-I.D.: mcgill-v.591 Posted: Sun Jan 4 03:55:22 1987 Date-Received: Tue, 6-Jan-87 18:56:55 EST References: <537@sask.UUCP> Organization: McGill University, Montreal Lines: 28 In article <537@sask.UUCP>, reid@sask.UUCP (Trying to stay warm) writes: > As more and more people run automatic routing software, more and more > messages go through ihnp4; after all, according to pathalias it can't be > beat. ihnp4 gets more and more load, [...vicious circle...] > Simple Solution #1: > Everybody stop pretending they can talk to ihnp4 every hour. Simple Solution #2: Everybody stop believing the sites who claim an HOURLY connection to ihnp4. When we run pathalias we declare ihnp4 dead on the command line for precisely this reason - it simply isn't as reliable as the maps say it is. Now if we can just get the intermediate sites to stop rewriting the path so it once more goes through ihnp4.... der Mouse USA: {ihnp4,decvax,akgua,utzoo,etc}!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse Europe: mcvax!decvax!utcsri!mcgill-vision!mouse ARPAnet: think!mosart!mcgill-vision!mouse@harvard.harvard.edu PS. Hmmmm....mebbe I better take ihnp4 out of the first .signature line? Naaah, then AT&T people wouldn't know how to reach me....