Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!texbell!ficc!peter From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: UUCP path cost reduction Message-ID: <--058L5@ggpc2.ferranti.com> Date: 7 Aug 90 02:04:47 GMT References: <11@aupair.cs.athabascau.ca> <1990Aug5.205619.9277@kth.se> Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 8 In article <1990Aug5.205619.9277@kth.se> perand@admin.kth.se (Per Andersson) writes: > Peter, I'm gonna ask you a simple stupid (probably) question. If you think > the DNS holds information which is wrong, why don't you get it fixed. Because it doesn't support the data structures necessary to put the right information in: namely a set of varying-priority connections. The local net is all UUCP, and the flat internet name space does not address that very well. -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180. 'U`