Mon, 14 Dec 1992 10:10:43 +0100
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On Sun, 13 Dec 1992 21:32:22 EST "A. Ralph Papakhian" <PAPAKHI@IUBVM>
said:
>About the same time, listserv mail from IUBVM addressed to IUBACS
>addresses started getting routed through Indianapolis--INDYCMS (even
>though iubvm and iubacs are in the same building, probably in the same
>room).
LISTSERV uses the topology information in BITEARN NODES, which says that
both IUBACS and INDIANA are connected via IUGOLD, which is connected via
a direct link to INDYCMS. IUBVM is connected to IUGOLD but via IUAQUA and
is thus farther away from these machines than INDYCMS. I have no idea
whether this is a new topology or something which has always been this
way, but in any case LISTSERV would always have routed through INDYCMS
given this topology. If the reality is that you have direct links between
IUBVM and the other machines, BITEARN NODES should be changed to reflect
this!
Generally speaking, whenever you don't understand why LISTSERV routes
things a certain way, the first thing to do is to check BITEARN NODES.
While your users might know that the line to XYZ is T1 while the line to
ABC is 9.6k, LISTSERV doesn't know this sort of things and has to rely on
the information it gets from the official source. If that information is
obsolete you generally have abnormal behaviour.
Eric
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