Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!husc6!hao!woods From: woods@hao.UUCP Newsgroups: news.config Subject: Re: it's a long long way to New Jersey Message-ID: <794@hao.UCAR.EDU> Date: Thu, 23-Jul-87 12:35:13 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.794 Posted: Thu Jul 23 12:35:13 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 25-Jul-87 09:20:37 EDT References: <410@pluto.UUCP> Reply-To: woods@hao.UUCP (Greg Woods) Distribution: usa Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 22 >pluto!bc-cis!phri!cmcl2!husc6!hao!oddjob!gargoyle!ihnp4!homxb!mtuxo >NY NY NY NY MA CO IL IL IL NJ NJ >It seems odd that the message goes thru Massachusetts, Colorado, and >Illinois when last time I went to New Jersey, it was just across the >Hudson. The problem is security paranoia within AT&T. There is an AT&T facility (all the dr* sites) about 20 miles from here, but we have to send mail to Chicago to get to them, because they will not set up any links to non-AT&T sites. I suspect your site in NJ has the same restriction. The path from MA to CO to IL is all over Internet links and hence is a "free" cost path and is therefore preferred by the routing software. Apparently there are large parts of AT&T that can ONLY be reached through ihnp4, so it often doesn't matter where the site is physically located; to get mail to them, you have to find the "cheapest" path to Chicago. --Greg -- UUCP: {hplabs, seismo, nbires, noao}!hao!woods CSNET: woods@ncar.csnet ARPA: woods%ncar@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA INTERNET: woods@hao.ucar.edu