Xref: utzoo news.admin:13180 comp.mail.uucp:6343 Newsgroups: news.admin,comp.mail.uucp Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!ira.uka.de!smurf!urlichs From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs) Subject: Re: French sites directly connected to USA cannot Message-ID: Date: Sat, 06 Apr 91 15:36:20 GMT Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG References: <68059@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> Lines: 32 In news.admin, article , pleasant@porthos.rutgers.edu (Mel Pleasant) writes: < The UUCP Mapping Project is in the process of establishing direct uucp < connections with the French, German and Israeli groups interested in posting < their own logical regional maps. The German part would be interested; however, a couple of "incompatibilities" between our local map and the rest of the world, which would have to be addressed first and I would like some input as to how others have solved these problems. 1- Since our maps currently are totally independent, a few duplicate names have crept in. Solution? Kick these guys out of our maps? Maintain two maps, one (external) with the duplicates removed? 2- There exist some links between sites in "our" map and sites in the "official" German map. Some of these cost real money and should either be marked terminal or deleted from the global maps. This also tends to indicate a necessity to split the maps into inter- and intra-network parts. 3- The official German maps consist mostly of entries marked HOURLY. That tends to warp the routing decisions. :-( This problem is aggravated by item 2, above. In other countries, it's even worse; in France, for instance, all links from inria.fr to other French sites are HOURLY, but there's no registered back link -- pathalias considers these to be DEAD. In the interest of avoiding flame wars about how to resolve these problems and incompatibilities, please mail comments to me; I'll summarize. -- Matthias Urlichs -- urlichs@smurf.sub.org -- urlichs@smurf.ira.uka.de /(o\ Humboldtstrasse 7 - 7500 Karlsruhe 1 - FRG -- +49-721-621127(0700-2330) \o)/