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From: mf@ircam.ircam.fr (Michel Fingerhut)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip,eunet.followup,fnet.followup
Subject: Re:  Long lines...  (was: Internet routing Europe -> USA -> Europe...)
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.214320.22373@ircam.ircam.fr>
Date: 31 Aug 90 21:43:20 GMT
References: <9008311711.AA18965@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: IRCAM, Paris (France)
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Arnold Nipper (XLINK, Karlsruhe, Germany) points a traceroute from his
machine to ours that goes (as hoped):
		Germany -> Holland -> Paris
while the one I get (Paris -> Germany) goes through upstate NY.  Well,
THIS IS BECAUSE THE FRENCH GATEWAY DOES NOT ALLOW ACCESS TO HOLLAND
and therefore to the rest of what's connected to it.  It's a first to me
that the reverse is possible, but as they say in French ca me fait une
belle jambe.