Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!ateng!chip From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Rerouting considered GOOD Message-ID: <1988Oct24.162111.25293@ateng.ateng.com> Date: 24 Oct 88 20:21:10 GMT References: <1988Oct14.111343.27064@ateng.ateng.com> <297@lakart.UUCP> <1988Oct20.121744.2001@ateng.ateng.com> <15@gnome6.pa.dec.com> Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL Lines: 22 According to vixie@decwrl.dec.com (Paul Vixie): >Chip says... ># Problems may arise and persist without the admin's knowledge. In the ># absence of foreknowledge, the maps will never be accurate. > >...and that's true, but it's not important. Yes, it is important. Once a person has acknowledged the truthfulness of that statement, he no longer feels any need to search for a technical solution to make active routing reliable, since that search has been proved to be pointless. Those of you who believe that there is a solution, consider this a challenge: Find it. But until you do, don't reroute. Please. (By the way, the tone of Paul's comment was uncalled for. I agree with his conclusion, but not his reasons.) -- Chip Salzenberg or A T Engineering Me? Speak for my company? Surely you jest! Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers.