From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Nov 21 18:50:29 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id SAA21290 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 18:50:29 -0800 Received: from hq.icb.chel.su (icb-rich-gw.icb.chel.su [193.125.10.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA21284 for ; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 18:50:23 -0800 Received: from localhost (babkin@localhost) by hq.icb.chel.su (8.6.5/8.6.5) id RAA07025; Tue, 21 Nov 1995 17:06:07 +0500 From: "Serge A. Babkin" Message-Id: <199511211206.RAA07025@hq.icb.chel.su> Subject: Re: 2.1.0-RELEASE now available! To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Tue, 21 Nov 1995 17:06:07 +0500 (GMT+0500) Cc: jmb@kryten.Atinc.COM, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199511210756.IAA16674@uriah.heep.sax.de> from "J Wunsch" at Nov 21, 95 08:56:21 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 978 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > 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.) Really the providers may get more profit when they are connected independently through USA if they charge more for the intercontinental traffic. Serge Babkin ! (babkin@hq.icb.chel.su) ! Headquarter of Joint Stock Commercial Bank "Chelindbank" ! Chelyabinsk, Russia