I just discovered that the 8/2/88 PEERS NAMES table has UCHCECVM listed as a Backbone LISTSERV. UCHCECVM is adjacent to UMDD BUT it is in Chile! Furthermore, the comments in their entry say that the link is not scheduled to be up for at least 12 hours a day. On our INFO-APP list this affected U of Maryland, CUA, and NIH. I changed our PEERS NAMES file to make UCHCECVM :backbone.NO and I did TELL LISTSERV CMS LSVPRSUM (just to be safe I also did a STOP REBOOT because the LSVPRSUM just gives a return code 0 - I get spoiled by all the nice messages LISTSERV usually puts out when it rebuilds stuff). Now the routing seems ok. I hope one of the coordinators can fix this because I know it is affecting many folks in the Maryland area (their nearest server was at PSUVM). I would like to mention that one of the very nice features of DIST2 is that it is VERY easy to get a map of the route mail-via DIST will take. For example, if you just XEDIT the file shown below, GET the list you want to check into the file after the //TO DD *, then SENDFILE that to LISTSERV, LISTSERV will mail you a map of where the output would go! Not only what the final distribution LISTSERVs are but what paths are followed for each final distribution point! (Excerpt from the "bad" list follows). The Debug=yes option prevents mail from actually going out. It might be nice to have an option such as Mail-via= DIST2,Trace or Trace=yes in the headers which would list this in the log for "problem" lists. But it is so easy to check it this way that probably isn't necessary. (I am not very knowledgeable on DISTRIBUTE jobs, but the following seems to do what I want). ---------- Marty Hoag ND HECN E-mail Postmaster ND Higher Education Computer Network US Mail: NDSU Computer Center Work Phone: (701)-237-8639 PO Box 5164 / UCCS Fargo, ND 58105 Bitnet: INFO@NDSUVM1 (Including EARN, NetNorth) ARPA: [log in to unmask] (aka NU021172@NDSUVM1 or @VM1.NoDak.EDU) UUCP: ...!psuvax1!NDSUVM1.BITNET!INFO ------------- Simple DIST2 Test Job --- NOTE: Debug=yes !!! ------------- (Debug=yes prevents mail from going out) //Test.Dist2 JOB Echo=yes DIST2 Mail Debug=yes //TO DD * <--- Insert LIST to be checked here... Comments are ignored. /* //DATA DD *,EOF,Res=Disk Date: Wed, 17 Aug 88 15:55:00 CDT From: Marty Hoag <INFO@NDSUVM1> Subject: This is a test... To: This is a test. --------------- Part of the output of the DIST2 Test Job ----------------- Received: by NDSUVM1 (Mailer X1.25) id 7572; Wed, 17 Aug 88 16:00:29 CDT Date: Wed, 17 Aug 1988 16:00 CDT From: Revised List Processor (1.5n) <LISTSERV@NDSUVM1> Subject: Output of your job "Test.Dist2" To: "HECN Postmaster (Marty Hoag)" <INFO@NDSUVM1> Job "Test.Dist2" started on 17 Aug 1988 16:00:19 > DIST2 Mail Debug=yes Debug trace information: AXTBF@ALASKA goes to UWAVM (#104) FFDDO@ALASKA goes to UWAVM (#104) ... JDA@NIHCU goes to UCHCECVM (#120) UFFDA! mgh =;-) RSS@NIHCU goes to UCHCECVM (#120) ... C09700SD@WUVMD goes to RICE (#22) CS117341@YUSOL goes to CANADA01 (#12) Path information: UWAVM : BITNIC BYUADMIN UWAVM OHSTVMA : BITNIC PSUVM OHSTVMA BITNIC : Direct send ... BEARN : BITNIC FRULM11 BEARN BROWNVM : BITNIC YALEVM BROWNVM BYUADMIN: BITNIC BYUADMIN QUCDN : BITNIC PSUVM CANADA01 QUCDN UCHCECVM: BITNIC PSUVM UCHCECVM ... CANADA01: BITNIC PSUVM CANADA01 Time elapsed: 5.02s, TCPU= 2.04s, VCPU= 1.86s (CPU model 3081). Job "Test.Dist2" ended on 17 Aug 1988 16:00:27 Summary of resource utilization ------------------------------- CPU time: 2.53 sec Device I/O: 36 Overhead CPU: 0.24 sec Paging I/O: 129 CPU model: 3081 DASD model: 3380