Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!nikhefh!a20 From: a20@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains Subject: Re: Domains Created in July 1990 Message-ID: <969@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> Date: 2 Aug 90 08:05:08 GMT References: <43507@apple.Apple.COM> <1990Aug1.112203.3062@mel.dit.csiro.au> Sender: terpstra@nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra) Reply-To: a20@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Marten Terpstra) Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Lines: 44 [stuff deleted] >Merit sez: > > Network 131.220, UNI-BONN, is not being announced on the Internet > at the present. It is under AS 86. Called SURAnet regarding this. > They are checking this, and will contact us with further info. > >Will let you know. > >--Ed > >Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept This is a traceroute seen from Holland (Amsterdam) : traceroute to olymp.cs.bonn.edu (131.220.4.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 hef-router.nikhef.nl (192.16.199.80) 20 ms 2 cwi-gw.cwi.nl (192.16.183.32) 40 ms 3 ciscogb5.irb.uni-dortmund.de (192.16.192.49) 320 ms 4 * 5 * 6 * 7 OLYMP.CS.BONN.EDU (131.220.4.1) 1880 ms ! Since cwi-gw.cwi.nl has a direct connection to UUnet, and therefore to SURAnet, the routers at SURAnet should have routing info to *.BONN.EDU. I checked at cwi-gw.cwi.nl and it really is distributed from cwi-gw to UUnet. So if you at the other side of the ocean have problems to get there it really is a problem of UUnet (or SURAnet) distributing the routes, or blocking access. If you can reach *.BONN.EDU you will probably get a bad response time, since the link between CWI (Amsterdam) and Uni-Dormund is (I believe) only 19.2. The link between CWI and UUnet is 64, but mostly heavily used. Still, in my opinion Uni Bonn should be in .de, but then, who am I ... Marten. -- Marten Terpstra National Institute for Nuclear Internet : terpstra@nikhef.nl and High Energy Physics Oldie-net: {....}mcsun!nikhefh!terpstra (NIKHEF-H), PO Box 41882, 1009 DB Phone : +31 20 592 5102 Amsterdam, The Netherlands