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From: karl@ficc.uu.net (Karl Lehenbauer)
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Subject: Re: Warp speed Mr. Scott!
Message-ID: <6093@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 8 Sep 89 12:35:00 GMT
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In article <3872@ditka.UUCP>, kls@ditka.UUCP (Karl Swartz) writes:
> Perhaps the worst offender of all, in view of its number of links,
> is uunet.  I posted something about this a while back; they list
> nearly all their links as DEMAND when in fact this bears very
> little resemblence to reality -- I know of several sites whose
> connections from uunet are listed as DEMAND yet they poll uunet
> once a night, at best.

One thing about uunet trying to list all of its uucp neighbors with the same
value, from fooling around with different values for the link between sugar
and uunet and running them through pathalias, if the link is substantially
downgraded, you end up generating routes to uunet that are not direct from
your site to uunet.  uunet could end up routing stuff to you indirectly
as well, if they allow that condition to occur.  (They will honor a site's 
request for a value other than DEMAND)

Now you might say that's the way it should be, but for a subscriber service
like uunet, it is desirable that their customers connect directly, hence
paying their own way.
-- 
-- uunet!ficc!karl	"Have you debugged your wolf today?"