Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 18:21:22 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de (Greg Lehey) To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Cc: hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD Hackers) Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! Message-ID: <199511211721.SAA14577@allegro.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <199511210756.IAA16674@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 21, 95 08:56:21 am
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J Wunsch writes: > > 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.) A bit of background: until about a year ago, the only commercial Internet providers were EUNet and Xlink, both *very* expensive (would you believe I used to pag $0.30 per kilobyte for mail?). Now there are some others, noticably MAZ, which are a lot cheaper, though still expensive by US standards (I now pay $13 per megabyte for IP traffic). EUNet and co didn't like these price-breakers, and until recently refused to give them a connection, which is why MAZ went via Pipex and Alternet. Things are happening--I can now connect to EUNet without leaving Germany, but as you can see, DFN is another matter. Greg
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