Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!math.lsa.umich.edu!emv From: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: Long lines... Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 90 01:38:58 GMT References: <9008311254.AA03868@mcsun.EU.net> <9008311421.AA08486@mcsun.EU.net> Sender: usenet@math.lsa.umich.edu Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor MI. Lines: 25 In-Reply-To: Piet.Beertema@MCSUN.EU.NET's message of 31 Aug 90 14:21:52 GMT In article <9008311421.AA08486@mcsun.EU.net> Piet.Beertema@MCSUN.EU.NET writes: Right, that's what I expected: it's just a technical problem (a gateway not announcing a route). In other words: there was no need to send this problem to an extremely wide-reaching mailing list. Contacting the managers of the first gateway (@inria) could have solved the problem... Anyway, we'll go after it and inform the people involved. Well, maybe yes, maybe no. I think that discussions of this sort are extremely interesting, and it is useful to draw the attention of the international community to such events. This is the first I had heard of such behavior europe->usa->europe; previously someone saw a usa->europe->usa hop. There is an IETF working group (the Topology Engineering Working Group) which has in the past looked into these things; intercontinental networks are more and more interesting all the time. I'm waiting for the first report of usa->europe->japan->australia, myself. --Ed Edward Vielmetti, U of Michigan math dept