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From: jso@edison.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: net.news.adm,net.news.sa
Subject: Re: Re: all-time worst path?
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Date: Wed, 4-Jun-86 09:26:58 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun  4 09:26:58 1986
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> >greipa!texsun!oz!munnari!prlb2!ukc!warwick!cvaxa!csunb!csun!sdcrdcf!%s
> 
> That's an impossible path!!!! You must have very buggy software or bogus
> maps; "csun" and "csunb" are both at Cal. State University Northridge
> (where I happen to attend), and "csunb" only talks to one machine - "csun". 
> The "csun" machine is the only site at Northridge that talks to the outside
> world, and it does not talk to "cvaxa"....

Unfortunately, "cvaxa", in Great Britian, has a machine "csuna" on its
local ethernet....

The biggest problem with not having a separate map entry for local nodes
is that no duplicate name checking is done.  This case was obvious looking
at the maps; if cvaxa had been in California, it might not have been.

Ideally, of course, outside mail should be routed by username by the main
node....  [Even more ideally, everyone would use domains, and you wouldn't
have a problem with csuna.cvaxa.UK or whatever.]

	Oh, well,

	John Owens @ General Electric Company	(+1 804 978 5726)
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