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From: stanonik@NPRDC.NAVY.MIL (Ron Stanonik)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: milnet/nsfnet(cerfnet) connectivity
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Date: 2 Feb 90 23:03:00 GMT
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We recently needed to connect from a milnet site (nprdc.navy.mil)
to a cerfnet site (sdsu.edu) , and found delays were about ~30secs.
This is particularly annoying given that the sites are less than
5 miles apart.  The milnet/arpanet core gateways were redirecting
nprdc.navy.mil through reston-dcec-mb.ddn.mil; ie, both sites are
in San Diego CA, but at least one site was being redirected through
VA(?).

Admittedly the milnet is only 56kb and is now an unfashionable
backwater of the networking galaxy, but something seems very
wrong with the routing to produce delays of 1/2 minute.

Aside from the milnet noc, is there anyone else to query about
routing problems (an nsfnet noc?)?  Gone are the days when we
only needed to sort out routing with one or two gateways.

Is there an online description of the nsfnet topology?  Not that
it will help.

Thanks,

Ron Stanonik
stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil