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Eric Thomas <ERIC@LEPICS> |
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Tue, 19 Sep 89 17:59:13 GMT |
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A new line has been introduced in the 8909 tables, between ICNUCEVM and DEARN.
This is actually a virtual SNA route, and I will not comment on its usefulness
(or lack thereof). However, the introduction of this new line caused LISTSERV
distribute jobs to take completely "absurd" paths, because I had not been
warned about this and had therefore not made the appropriate change to the
link weights file; LISTSERV, which has no way to know that this is a virtual
SNA route, had assumed the default weight of "1" and routed a huge amount of
traffic through that line.
I am hereby repeating, for the last time, my request to have changes to the
international EARN topology announced a reasonable amount of time in advance.
I am fed up with having to find out this kind of things after the fact, when I
get complaints from understandably unhappy people. This is not very difficult
to implement: whenever a NCC makes a change to an international line, he
should post a note to some list, which should give us at least 2 weeks of
advance notice. If such a simple thing cannot be done, then I cannot spend
time troubleshooting such problems either, and the next time it happens I will
simply ignore the problem and let EARN files make 2 round trips across Europe
before they reach their final destination.
Eric
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