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From: reid@decwrl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: all-time worst path?
Message-ID: <3179@decwrl.DEC.COM>
Date: Thu, 22-May-86 23:12:56 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 22 23:12:56 1986
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Reply-To: reid@decwrl.UUCP (Brian Reid)
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Yesterday I said:
>This, without a doubt, has to be the worst mail routing I have ever seen:
>greipa!texsun!oz!munnari!prlb2!ukc!warwick!cvaxa!csunb!csun!sdcrdcf!%s

Well, this was not a bug in pathalias but 3 combined bugs in the database.
  (1) Site "texsun" claims a link to "oz", when in fact it has a link
      to "ozone" on its local network.
  (2) Somebody replaced the carefully-commented-out links from munnari
      to the outside world in the entry for munnari, so that pathalias
      thought it could route through australia.
  (3) The machine named "oz", in Washington, is somehow made equivalent to
      the domain ".oz", which is Australia.

The time cost of X.25 links is fairly low, so the pathalias entries that are
made for them show very small numbers, and an article can take a large number
of X.25 hops for the price of one "HOURLY" link.