Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!ms6b# From: ms6b#@ANDREW.CMU.EDU.UUCP Newsgroups: mod.protocols.tcp-ip Subject: Re: network horror stories Message-ID: Date: Mon, 30-Mar-87 14:15:03 EST Article-I.D.: andrew.MS.V3.18.ms6b.80020b28.liberty.sun.2008.2 Posted: Mon Mar 30 14:15:03 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 1-Apr-87 00:39:58 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 27 Approved: tcp-ip@sri-nic.arpa >most of the telephone companies have the prefix for remote areas stored locally to >reduce trunk line usage from wrong numbers...if you dial 412 333 XXXX in 201 >area then 201 area will not even try the connection, it will indicate that >number is incorrect and a telephone book should be consulted. Alas, >propagation of this information has the same problems as propagating routing >information....sigh. When CMU's exchange code was changed last year (to 268= CMU) that fact was not properly propogated to the CCSA switches used by the FTS network. As a consequence, for two days after the change, no one at NSF, DoD, etc. could call CMU over the FTS network! They were told 268 was not a working exchange. Marvin Sirbu CMU