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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Size of the Internet vs. UUCP net
Message-ID: <4034@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 30 Apr 89 00:37:55 GMT
References: <1989Apr24.203137.5835@utzoo.uucp> <163@ncis.tis.llnl.gov> <552@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <552@aurora.AthabascaU.CA>, lyndon@cs.AthabascaU.CA (Lyndon Nerenberg) writes:
> No way! You could take those 15,000 and multiply by three and still come up
> short. Nearly every map entry I'm aware of (for Alberta anyway) hides
> *at* *least* three additional machines behind it.

Yes. For example, "ficc" is the common uucp name for at least 30 machines,
with more every day. More machiens are visible on the Internet because it's
advantageous to expose all your internal machines to it. With uucp it's to
your advantage to hide your internal net.
-- 
Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.

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