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From: jordan@ucbvax.ARPA (Jordan Hayes)
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Subject: Re: of maps and blood and Peters...
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Date: Tue, 10-Sep-85 01:05:29 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 10 01:05:29 1985
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References: <9543@ucbvax.ARPA> <167@graffiti.UUCP>
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Summary: How long does it take for news to get to australia?

In article <167@graffiti.UUCP> peter@graffiti.UUCP (Peter da Silva) writes:
>> Wrong. Decisions in routing can be made down the line that are much smarter
>> than your bloody map...
>
>OK. You want to replace his bloody map with your bloody map. Where did all
>this blood come from?

Well, by "your map" I meant the map that is used in pathalias, which
is, except for his own local additions, the ENTIRE map (blood is drawn
when transfering all 900K of it to ALL news sites via net.map <or
whatever Mark calls it these days>). See, the only "smart" thing that
pathalias does is correctly guess the first host to go to -- why should
it decide anything more?

Why can't it just take an address like "user@host7" and instead of
generating host1!host2!host3!host4!host5!host6!host7!user, just
use the same reasoning power that it uses now, and hand "user@host7"
to host1 ? Hmmm... sounds like the plague or communism, or worse
yet, a good idea... That's probably why we don't do it that way.

By the way, then we wouldn't need all that much information and we
also wouldn't need the expensive (cpu time, disk space) software
like pathalias. Just inteligent domains.

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