Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!decwrl!vixie From: vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Rerouting: a comprehensive list of ideas Message-ID: <10@jove.dec.com> Date: 7 Oct 88 00:55:25 GMT References: <137@microsoft.UUCP> Organization: DEC Western Research Lab Lines: 24 In article <137@microsoft.UUCP> w-tedt@microsoft.UUCP (Ted Timar) writes: # 3) Also for rerouting, it should be legal to reroute as far as any fully # qualified domain name. We can be sure that we know, uniquely, which # site it is. I once thought so. I am even willing to concede the point if it will buy me a concession from the rerouting gang. But consider: if my MTA gets something to and decides to find a route to "foo.bar.com" and reroute, and "foo" turns out through an anomoly in the map data not to be the official fastest way there although it happens to be the unofficial fastest way there from here right at this moment, the reroute result could very well be which is not much of a win over the original . You can't tell me to compare the costs, since I don't know what the originator of the message thought the cost was, or if it was even pathalias-based. It may not have been. Any rerouter has to know how to stay out of the way of human-generated routes. -- Paul Vixie Work: vixie@decwrl.dec.com decwrl!vixie +1 415 853 6600 Play: paul@vixie.sf.ca.us vixie!paul +1 415 864 7013