From owner-freebsd-chat Sun Aug 10 21:48:25 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA10689 for chat-outgoing; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:48:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (joelh@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu [128.52.46.64]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA10684 for ; Sun, 10 Aug 1997 21:48:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu (8.8.5/8.6.12GNU) id AAA06504; Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:48:01 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 00:48:01 -0400 Message-Id: <199708110448.AAA06504@ethanol.gnu.ai.mit.edu> To: perhaps@yes.no CC: adrian@obiwan.psinet.net.au, chat@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: <199708101208.OAA04516@bitbox.follo.net> (message from Eivind Eklund on Sun, 10 Aug 1997 14:08:33 +0200 (CEST)) Subject: Re: uunet vs. internet From: Joel Ray Holveck Reply-to: joelh@gnu.ai.mit.edu Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > I was actually tossing up whether to setup an IPv6 tunnel network between > > local Perth ISPs, then linking the "network" to somewhere in the eastern > > states. Anyone else on here game? Even an IPIP tunnel with our own network > > would be really funky. > Any reason to go for these instead of PPP over TCP/IP, which we > already have support for? PPP over TCP over SSH, and you have a VPN > there and then. (Well, perhaps you'd want to add name-resolving...) Sorry, what's VPN? > The process of booting a separate Usenet has started. Perhaps it is > the time for a new Internet? :-) I thought that was already in the works, something that's more chartered to educational purposes than commercial. (Ah, back when the first domain you thought of ended in .edu... I remember...) But what separate Usenet? -- Second law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation -- core dumped