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From: okuno@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU (Hiroshi Okuno)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Smail is a snail mailer?
Message-ID: <1747@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Mon, 8-Jun-87 21:32:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: Shasta.1747
Posted: Mon Jun  8 21:32:23 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 11-Jun-87 06:17:21 EDT
Reply-To: okuno@sumex-aim.stanford.edu (Hiroshi Okuno)
Distribution: comp.mail.uucp
Organization: Knowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University
Lines: 25
Keywords: smail, NTT, Japan
Summary: strange route from West Germany to California
Group: Heuristic Programming Project

Address: 701 Welch Road, Building C, Palo Alto, CA 94304-1703

Phone: +1 (415)725-4854

Internet: okuno@sumex-aim.stanford.edu

UUCP: hplabs!Shasta!nttca!okuno


I'm the postmaster of nttca and one of the postmasters of the NTT domain.
(NTT stands for Nippon Telephone and Telegraph, not for Not aT&T.)
Nttca is an international gateway of the NTT domain installed in 
Los Altos, California.

Recently, we have a very strange experience.  That is, messages
sent in West Germany to nttca were delivered via unido (West Germany),
mcvax (the Netherlands), kddlabs (Japan), xx.ll.mit.edu (U.S.A.),
rutgers.edu and shasta.stanford.edu.  Note that the recipients of these
messages are at nttca, not at any other sites in the NTT domain.

The possible causes of this strange routing are

(1) The SMAIL program is so wise that any message sent to any site
beginning with "ntt" is delivered to kddlab (Japanese USENET backbone site).

(2) nttca is registered as a Japanese site by mistake at mcvax.  If so,
who posted a wrong UUMAP information on nttca?  The UUMAP information
on nttca is correct at least at shasta.stanford.edu.

Any comment or suggestions?

Thanks,

- Gitchang -