Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!utcsri!utegc!utai!ubc-vision!van-bc!sl From: sl@van-bc.UUCP Newsgroups: can.general,news.misc,news.admin Subject: Re: uunet access from Canada Message-ID: <967@van-bc.UUCP> Date: Sun, 5-Jul-87 16:06:41 EDT Article-I.D.: van-bc.967 Posted: Sun Jul 5 16:06:41 1987 Date-Received: Mon, 6-Jul-87 05:36:28 EDT References: <954@van-bc.UUCP> <1477@ncc.UUCP> <959@van-bc.UUCP> <1480@ncc.UUCP> Reply-To: sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) Distribution: can Organization: Public Access Network, Vancouver, BC. Lines: 50 Xref: utgpu can.general:643 news.misc:579 news.admin:542 In article <1480@ncc.UUCP> lyndon@ncc.UUCP (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes: >In article <959@van-bc.UUCP>, sl@van-bc.UUCP (Stuart Lynne) writes: >> >> This actually happened to us the west coast in February. Alberta lost their >> ihpn4 link. Feed went from a pretty consistent 1MB of compressed feed per >> day to a handful of articles filtering in from back east. Pretty boring 3 >> weeks! > >Which is rather strange given that ubc-vision is a backbone site. Yes, but almost all news comes in from Alberta, not from uw-beaver. >When the ihnp4 link went down, a few of us went into "crisis mode" >to figure out an alternative. Thus was born the link between alberta A hearty thank you from all of us here on the West Coast! >and mnetor (which is now working in both directions). Of the >alternatives, the best all involved redundent X.25 links between >major sites, with leaf sites coming in via dialup to this "mini- >backbone." Things have improved greatly since then. So your solution has helped. >Uunet is a service that is long overdue. I would like to see it made >more robust by having more than one "uunet" in the world. Don't forget >800 and 900 toll free and toll reduced calling are viable alternatives >to X.25 as well. I think we will see more than one eventually, but we have to use up the capacity of the first one first. There are two fairly obvious facts to remember: a) a second UUNET would probably still be in the US, b) it will probably be run by the same people and take advantage of the same Tymnet access. This means that if we don't get access to the first at lower prices, having a second won't benefit us, except for improved reliability. The best scenario for reliability is simply to expand the existing UUNET installation with multiple CPU's which all answer calls on Tymnet and appear as one large installation. If one of several goes down you simply tell Tymnet to reduce the number of active logins allowed until your up again. I think that UUNET will prove to be a bit more solid than ihnp4. UUNET only exists to do this type of work. Ihnp4 does it just because they are nice people. -- {ihnp4!alberta!ubc-vision,uunet}!van-bc!Stuart.Lynne Vancouver,BC,604-937-7532