Xref: utzoo news.misc:1484 news.config:625 Path: utzoo!yunexus!spectrix!clewis From: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Newsgroups: news.misc,news.config Subject: Re: The USENET Backbone (Updated: 18 May 1988) Message-ID: <643@spectrix.UUCP> Date: 2 Jun 88 21:36:36 GMT Article-I.D.: spectrix.643 Posted: Thu Jun 2 17:36:36 1988 References: <4245@medusa.cs.purdue.edu> <7348@swan.ulowell.edu> Reply-To: clewis@spectrix.UUCP (Chris Lewis) Organization: Spectrix Microsystems Inc., Toronto, Ontario, Canada Lines: 42 In article <7348@swan.ulowell.edu> page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) writes: >Isn't there a new backbone in Spain, fed by mcvax? Could be. Then again, maybe they simply didn't tell Gene. Maybe they didn't want to be advertised. After all, "backboneship" isn't really something that Gene "grants" - it's really just the way the major news flows are setup by the neighboring site admins. Gene's list is really only of those sites that want to advertise themselves as major traffic points. Mnetor was a backbone in everything but name for over a year before we bothered mentioning it to Gene. (Actually, it was a backbone for a couple of days before we knew it... ;-) >I don't understand some of the map. Like, why are ulysses, ubc-cs and >vucomp on there, all dead ends (and vucomp a restricted link at that)? >I submit that a 'backbone' link is to carry the news fast between >other backbone links, and I don't see these sites as doing that >(except for their leaf nodes ... hell, everybody does that). By the >same token, alberta would have to be looked at. Reread the posting: |A Usenet "backbone" site is one which exchanges every (non-local) news |article it receives with at least two other backbone sites; or which is ----------- |the main newsfeed for a particular geographical area (e.g., Australia) ----------------------------------------------------- |or special news gateway (e.g., inet) and exchanges news with at least |one other backbone site. Alberta is a geographical region, so's British Columbia etc. Sounds perfectly legit to me. > >I can't decide what the rutgers-ukma link is. Two paths? Does the '+' >mean all the connected sites talk to each other? Good question. Gene? Looks to me like a simple cross-over without connection. -- Chris Lewis, Spectrix Microsystems Inc, Phone: (416)-474-1955 UUCP: {uunet!mnetor, utcsri!utzoo, lsuc, yunexus}!spectrix!clewis Moderator of the Ferret Mailing List (ferret-list,ferret-request@spectrix)