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Eric Thomas <ERIC@FRECP11> |
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Tue, 9 Dec 1986 17:56 SET |
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Several of you asked me about EARNET routing problems and the strange node
INTNET. What happened is that node EARNET is being moved to another computing
centre in Pisa, that is, the "old" EARNET computer remains active but will be
renamed to IEARN while the "new" computer in Pisa will be called EARNET (or
maybe it's the opposite, I'm not too sure). Anyway there are at present TWO
nodes named EARNET on the network: the old one and the new one. Since a node
cannot talk to itself, the EARNET people had to define a dummy node called
INTNET (using a virtual CTCA connection), which is itself connected to another
node named IEARN (another CTCA connection), which eventually connects to the
other EARNET. This is a mess but it works.
Important note: when you have received the new nodes table for this month,
please do NOT run NODESGEN without first receiving the updated LINKSWT FILE I
will send you as soon as I get the new nodes tables myself. Since the setup
will have been drastically altered, with IEARN no longer being a synonym for
EARNET, the nodes table generation program would give a (nonfatal) error and
would most probably result in unweighted nodes table in LISTSERV. This would
not cause it to crash but subscriptions would not be routed where they ought
to, etc... :-(
Eric
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