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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Article with the most interesting path
Message-ID: <626@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 19:38:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: oliveb.626
Posted: Mon Oct 21 19:38:20 1985
Date-Received: Tue, 22-Oct-85 08:38:29 EDT
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Organization: Olivetti ATC; Cupertino, Ca
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I was examining news articles for length of path and came across an
interesting one.  It follows the typical cross country path to get next
door.  Amazingly all this cross country hopping only took 3 days.  Not
bad except for the extra phone charges.

I won't even try to figure out that %.@ junk on the end of the path.  I
will also leave it to someone else to figure out how the sender is
brl-tgr when it didn't get there until 7 sites later.

The interesting thing is the uucp path.  It starts out in OR, hops
across the country thru UT, MD, VA, MA, NJ, IL, NY, and then cross
country back to WA, back to OR, and then more reasonably down to CA.
One could find several points of optimization in this path and, no
doubt, recommend several new connections.

The most obvious though is athena->tektronix.  This article took 21
hops, across country and back, to reach a site in the same state, the
same city, and the same company.  Hell, they are even in the same
division of Tektronix.

Please, someone tell me that the path has been munged and that it really
didn't take that many hops to get here!

Extract of article follows:

> Relay-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site oliveb.UUCP
> Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA
> Path: oliveb!hplabs!tektronix!uw-beaver!cornell!vax135!houxm!ihnp4!mhuxn!mhuxr!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!utah-cs!admin!iti!athena!svc%utah-gr.UTAH-CS.ARPA.ARPA@BRL.ARPA
> From: PA@BRL.ARPA>
> Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
> Subject: Serial line problems on Sun
> Message-ID: <1904@brl-tgr.ARPA>
> Date: 4 Oct 85 06:30:32 GMT
> Date-Received: 7 Oct 85 01:46:39 GMT
> Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA

Path site locations taken from mod.map data:

	svc%utah-gr.UTAH-CS.ARPA.ARPA@BRL.ARPA ??
	athena		Beaverton, OR
	iti		??
	admin		??
	utah-cs		Salt Lake City, UT
	tgr		??
	brl-tgr		MD
	seismo		Arlington, VA
	harvard		Cambridge, MA
	talcott		Cambridge, MA
	panda		Concord, MA
	genrad		Bolton, MA
	mit-eddie	Cambridge, MA
	allegra		Murray Hill, NJ
	ulysses		Murray Hill, NJ
	mhuxr		Murray Hill, NJ
	mhuxn		Murray Hill, NJ
	ihnp4		Naperville, IL
	houxm		Holmdel, NJ
	vax135		Holmdel, NJ
	cornell		Ithaca, NY
	uw-beaver	Seattle, WA
	tektronix	Beaverton, OR
	hplabs		Palo Alto, CA
	oliveb		Cupertino, CA

					Jerry Aguirre @ Olivetti ATC
{hplabs|fortune|idi|ihnp4|tolerant|allegra|tymix|olhqma}!oliveb!jerry