Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!bionet!lear From: lear@NET.BIO.NET (Eliot Lear) Newsgroups: comp.mail.misc Subject: Re: sigh (was Re: Short-circuiting a route) Message-ID: Date: 12 Jul 89 17:54:13 GMT References: <1062@aber-cs.UUCP> <59767@uunet.UU.NET> <3648@ncar.ucar.edu> <3842@phri.UUCP> <330@capmkt.COM> Organization: Natl Computer Resource for Mol. Biology Lines: 12 Brent, Since the average length of a path after optimization is a smidgen over two, the chances of it getting rerouted to a down host down the path are small, (albeit the possibility exists). The chances of a user knowing that a particular system is down is even smaller (albeit the possibility exists). Eliot -- Eliot Lear [lear@net.bio.net]