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From: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Newsgroups: net.mail
Subject: Re: Hypothetical problem.
Message-ID: <387@ncr-sd.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 12-Jan-86 10:59:18 EST
Article-I.D.: ncr-sd.387
Posted: Sun Jan 12 10:59:18 1986
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References: <383@ncr-sd.UUCP> <3080@sun.uucp> <1878@uwmacc.UUCP> <386@ncr-sd.UUCP> <394@packard.UUCP>
Reply-To: greg@ncr-sd.UUCP (Greg Noel)
Organization: NCR Corporation, San Diego
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In article <394@packard.UUCP> gjm@packard.UUCP (Gary J Murakami) offers
the ihnp4 pathalias output relating to ncr-sd.

Applying a little knowledge not directly available from pathalias, this
produces three sets of sites:
Our various names: ncr-sd, ncr-tp, and sd.ncr.
NCR sites for which we gateway: onion (onion.ncr), ncrtps (tranpro.sd.ncr),
	pmncrrb (prodmgmt.sd.ncr), fiddler (saf.sd.ncr), se-sd (pld.sd.ncr),
	ziggy (ziggy.ncr, vrx.sd.ncr), tw11 (why does tw11 appear twice?),
	and rd1632.  (Eight actual sites, despite the quantity of names.)
Other San Diego sites: sdencore, man, jack, isg100, and csm.  (Five sites.)

I expected that the NCR sites would be there; with few exceptions, mail
for them must pass through us.  What surprises me is the San Diego sites.
We offer the same costs to those San Diego sites also reached by sdcsvax;
I would have expected that either all of them would be listed or none of
them, so that if sdencore is there, all of the other San Diego sites should
be listed, too.  (We do have a cheaper path to man (and thus jack, isg100,
and csm); I didn't realize that sdcsvax didn't speak to it directly.)

In any event, the bottom line is that if you had traffic for any of those
thirteen unlucky sites during the first few days of the year, you should
retry it.

At the risk of getting on a bandwagon, I, for one, would like to express
my appreciation to Gary, and to the current folks at ihnp4, for providing
us a marvelous service.  They may occasionally get the details wrong, but
they can't always be faulted for that, and their hearts are in the right
place.
-- 
-- Greg Noel, NCR Rancho Bernardo    Greg@ncr-sd.UUCP or Greg@nosc.ARPA