Path: utzoo!attcan!ncrcan!lsuc!dave
From: dave@lsuc.on.ca (David Sherman)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: long path to Ottawa from Toronto
Summary: the joys of pathalias
Message-ID: <1989Jun13.065217.18770@lsuc.on.ca>
Date: 13 Jun 89 10:52:15 GMT
References: <89Jun12.233601edt.19238@me.utoronto.ca>
Distribution: ont
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
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eastick@me.utoronto.ca (Doug Eastick) writes:
>
>Our (actually utai's) uucp database shows the following path for mail
>going to geovision, and anything else cognos talks to:
>
>  neat.ai.toronto.edu!rutgers!oddjob!gargoyle!spl1!scs!sce!cognos!geovision
>
>Why would scs's (Carleton) call to spl1 (Chicago) be rated lower than a
>connection to another Ottawa site? I would think that nrcaer or
>bnr-vpa would be better. But that might just be politics.

Well, lsuc!nrcaer is rated WEEKLY, and dciem!nrcaer is rated
POLLED/6.  They're both faster than that, I would think.
In the past, we didn't call nrcaer at all, though we do now.
They call us most evenings.  I don't mind upgrading lsuc!nrcaer
to DEMAND.  I just checked our L.sys line and added some improvements
so that it actually connects properly. :-)

That path you show is actually quite unremarkable, compared
with what happened in July 1986.  Remember when everyone suddenly
discovered UUCP over X.25 and announced "cheap" international links?
The best path from lsuc to seismo then came out as:

seismo	utcs!utai!ubc-vision!munnari!prlb2!enea!seismo!%s

That is, through U of T to Vancouver, Australia, Belgium and
Sweden to Virginia.  Now *that's* the long way around the world.

David Sherman
The Law Society of Upper Canada
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