Newsgroups: can.uucp
Path: utzoo!lsuc!eci386!woods
From: woods@eci386.uucp (Greg A. Woods)
Subject: Re: Warp speed Mr. Scott!
Message-ID: <1989Aug30.194654.101@eci386.uucp>
Summary: published maps vs. Maps.local
Reply-To: woods@eci386.UUCP (Greg A. Woods)
Organization: R. H. Lathwell Associates: Elegant Communications, Inc.
References: <1989Aug21.124002.11054@robohack.uucp> <1059@aurora.AthabascaU.CA> <1989Aug29.130347.10673@robohack.uucp> <1989Aug29.155304.2026@tmsoft.uucp>
Date: Wed, 30 Aug 89 19:46:54 GMT
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In article <1989Aug29.155304.2026@tmsoft.uucp> mason@tmsoft.UUCP (Dave Mason) writes:
> In article <1989Aug29.130347.10673@robohack.uucp> woods@robohack writes:
> >also be misleading.  All in all, I have achieved the desired result in
> >my own pathalias output, and that's what counts, no?  :-)
> 
> Not sure exactly what the smiley is for here, but you should tune your
> Path.local file (or whatever) to get the pathalias output you want.
> Your published maps should reflect the real costs, downgraded perhaps
> to avoid paths you don't want the whole world to use.

That's what I hope I've done, though I've used the numbers, not the
names to describe the costs for my node.  I don't want to have to make
local adjustments to my own map entry.

> (I.e. if I did lots of work with Australia I might have:
> 	tmsoft	munnari(DIRECT)
> in my Path.local file, but
> 	tmsoft	munnari(HOURLY*2)
> in my published map entry, because I don't want all North American and
> European traffic siphoned off through my site, though I might be
> willing to carry a bit of local traffic bound that way).

In that case, I wouldn't even want my paths file to see the low cost
link either in case someone was using me as a smart-host.  I would use
explicit bang routing if I wanted to use my own link without regard to
cost.

> (Disclaimer: I do not have any real or imagined link to munnari, so
> don't go & change your routing tables :-)

I should hope not, as that would screw up any local round-the-world
backup schemes!
-- 
						Greg A. Woods

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