Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!mcdchg!ditka!kls
From: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Another argument against REROUTE
Message-ID: <356@ditka.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 07:43:04 GMT
References: <350@ditka.UUCP> <5971@emcard.UUCP>
Reply-To: kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz)
Organization: Inaction Central, Los Alamos, New Mexico
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In article <5971@emcard.UUCP> mat@emcard.UUCP (Mat Waites) writes:
>In article <350@ditka.UUCP> kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
>}... mark gatech as dead along with rutgers and the others
>}(assuming gatech is indeed the problem).
>
>Why don't the "backbone" sites periodically publish the names and
>phone numbers of their news/uucp/net admins so that people can just
>call them instead of just theorizing about what is going on.

At one time gatech did appear to re-route, and I'm know that emoryu1
does not.  (Since emoryu1 is a direct connection to ditka, I send a
fair amount of mail thru there.)  Still conjecture on my part as to
which site was doing the dirty deed.

And in fairness, all sites effectively publish their admin's e-mail
address, namely postmaster, and mail to postmaster at both gatech
and rutgers (as well as emoryu1) brought a swift and courteous
reply from both sites, saying that they had marked the links in
question as dead until the maps were properly updated.

>Is there a measureable need for re-routing at any sites that are not
>backbone? (I really don't know)

In this case, re-routing at ditka (certainly not a backbone site)
was necessary since the link no longer existed.  Despite the quick
replies from the various backbone postmasters involved, I still do
not think they should be re-routing valid paths.

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