Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!chinet!les
From: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp
Subject: Re: Dynamic vs. passive routing: site rights
Message-ID: <6392@chinet.UUCP>
Date: 26 Aug 88 21:14:57 GMT
References: <4902@netnews.upenn.edu> <965@vsi1.UUCP>
Reply-To: les@chinet.UUCP (Leslie Mikesell)
Organization: Chinet - Public Access Unix
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In article <965@vsi1.UUCP> lmb@vsi1.UUCP (Larry Blair) writes:
>
>You've completely missed the point.  If I give your site a path b!c!user,
>I don't care how you get it to b.  If you have a cheaper path to b than
>a direct call, send it that way.  What I care about is when you send it
>to a site that you think is c.  Only b knows who their c is.

But if you have a map entry for b showing that it talks to your site
and c, and you have a map entry for c showing that it talks to b, do
you not then know that the c in your map entry is the same c that
b is going to forward to?  Of course it is possible to lie both in the
map entries and in a uucp conversation, but then you deserve to lose...

Les Mikesell