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From: jer@peora.UUCP (J. Eric Roskos)
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Subject: Re: of maps and blood and Peters...
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Date: Wed, 11-Sep-85 08:29:22 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 11 08:29:22 1985
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We already discussed this a couple of weeks ago, but to summarize:

> See, the only "smart" thing that pathalias does is correctly guess the
> first host to go to -- why should it decide anything more?

Because to guess correctly it needs to know the full path, either to the
destination site, or to the domain nameserver.  The latter is fine -- I'll
agree with that.  I disagree with the idea that you can just "guess" the
next adjacent site to send to, though.  The latter case uses pathalias,
both to find the paths to the nameservers, and from the nameservers to the
name the server is resolving the path for.

Instead of just going over and over this, why don't you explain the
algorithm you recommend for guessing the next site to choose?  That would
help in furthering the discussion.
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