Path: utzoo!lsuc!nrcaer!scs!sce!greg
From: greg@sce.carleton.ca (Greg Franks)
Newsgroups: ont.uucp
Subject: Re: long path to Ottawa from Toronto
Message-ID: <625@sce.carleton.ca>
Date: 19 Jun 89 16:49:28 GMT
References: <89Jun12.233601edt.19238@me.utoronto.ca>
Reply-To: greg@sce.UUCP (Greg Franks)
Distribution: ont
Organization: Systems Eng., Carleton Univ., Ottawa, Canada
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In article <89Jun12.233601edt.19238@me.utoronto.ca> 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.

We in Ottawa used to get mail/news/whatever over
dciem!nrcaer!{ottawa}.  For a short per]iod of time, we had a
satellite connection (perhaps we still do) from gandalf in chicago to
gandalf in Ottawa.  That's why the route goes through spl1.  Now, all
news goes through uunet!mitel!sce.  Mail still works through nrcaer.
  ..greg

(others locally are probably more familiar with the routing....)
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