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From: karl@saqqara.cis.ohio-state.edu (Karl Kleinpaste)
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Subject: Re: The USENET Backbone (Updated: 18 May 1988)
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Date: 2 Jun 88 15:18:46 GMT
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In-reply-to: reid@decwrl.dec.com's message of 1 Jun 88 21:30:55 GMT

reid@decwrl.dec.com writes:
   As a result it has some bugs (e.g.
   ... there is some confusion as
   to just what is the name of the node "ohio-state").

The confusion is probably due to the fact that the backbone site
`ohio-state' is actually two machines.  One is the 3B2/400 called
osu-cis, and the other is tut.cis.ohio-state.edu, a Pyramid 98x.  A
total of about 30 full-feed netnews neighbors, split roughly evenly
between the two for UUCP on osu-cis and NNTP on Tut.

For the purpose of map generation, the long/lat info on osu-cis should
suffice.  Our map entry doesn't show Tut explicitly, if I remember
right; he would just be part of ohio-state.edu, hidden (for UUCP
purposes) behind osu-cis as the university's gateway.

--Karl