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 If that information is obsolete you generally have abnormal behaviour.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