Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 08:56:21 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! Message-ID: <199511210756.IAA16674@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9511201957.E7440-0100000@kryten.atinc.com> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Nov 20, 95 08:03:19 pm
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As Jonathan M. Bresler wrote: > > i have not yet had a chance to play with a source-routing > traceroute or to sendmail to myself by way of two sites in, say, > australia. i have heard horror stories about non-us > connectivity--several nets in one country reach each other by way of the > usa. is this really teh case ?? Unfortunately, yes. :-( At least here, several upcoming providers start with a leased line to US (or UK in one case) in order to provide their connectivity. National interconnections often follow years behind. (One of these providers was able to establish these interconnections meanwhile, at least to other ones are still being routed via US.) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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