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From: honey@citi.umich.edu (Peter Honeyman)
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Subject: Re: routing TO a site without routing THROUGH it
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Date: Wed, 27-May-87 00:36:00 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 27 00:36:00 1987
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my brows are furrowed, not beaten.  this "last hack" awaits the
resolution of some questions.

e.g., if a->b is a terminal edge, may b->c be used as an edge of
last resort?

or another, is an edge from a domain to a domain member
terminal?  (i.e., given seismo->.gov, .gov->lanl, lanl->beta,
should pathalias condone seismo!lanl.gov!beta!%s?  yes, because
it's semantically unclean to do otherwise, or no, because this
and many similar paths fail?)

while rick and i ponder this and other earth-shattering
minutiae, it still suffices to declare grumpy neighbors DEAD on
the command line.

	peter