Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!molnar
From: molnar@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Tom Molnar)
Newsgroups: tor.news
Subject: Re: Takin' my mail down to Virginee...
Message-ID: <1989May14.161939.9846@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Date: 14 May 89 20:19:39 GMT
References: <1989May14.165359.21028@telly.on.ca>
Reply-To: molnar@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Tom Molnar)
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In article <1989May14.165359.21028@telly.on.ca> evan@telly.on.ca (Evan Leibovitch) writes:
# Upon redoing my paths file recently, I noticed that pathalias now considers
# the fastest trip from here to uunet to be
# 
# telly!utzoo!utgpu!utai!watmath!uunet
# 
# rather than what it used to be, telly!attcan!uunet

This does seem rather strange indeed.  The path is definitly not what
it should be.  As far as I can tell watmath calls uunet using the UofT
Internet connection. The utgpu <-> watmath link is over ONET.  The message
travels to UofT, thence to waterloo over ONET, back over ONET to UofT, and then
down to uunet.  The shortest path would be telly!utgpu!uunet but the appropriate
path should be telly!attcan!uunet -- utai is no closer to the Internet than
any other host at UofT.

My concern, however, lies elsewhere.  I'm sure the folks at Waterloo didn't
intend to advertise the NSFnet connection at UofT as the default path down
to uunet.  AT&T Canada have graciously offered to handle email traffic to
uunet.  It is not appropriate to use the NSFnet link at UofT for this.

-- 
Tom Molnar
Unix Systems Group, University of Toronto Computing Services.