Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83 ; site lvbull.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!cbdkc1!desoto!packard!hoxna!houxm!whuxlm!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!hao!seismo!mcvax!vmucnam!timpit0!lvbull!sylvain From: sylvain@lvbull.UUCP (Sylvain Langlois RCG-ARS) Newsgroups: net.news.b Subject: News providing wrong paths, or what? Message-ID: <341@lvbull.UUCP> Date: Mon, 4-Feb-85 23:41:31 EST Article-I.D.: lvbull.341 Posted: Mon Feb 4 23:41:31 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Feb-85 06:10:32 EST Distribution: net.bugs.uucp Organization: BULL, Louveciennes, France Lines: 21 <*****> I tried to answer by mail to news articles, and sometimes it works fine, but sometimes it fails also! Last time I tried, I wanted to send some mail to Jacob about his WM's son. News article (reference <7526@brl!tgr>) was giving following path: "mcvax!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!jacob". I received a mail from "mcvax!seismo!umcp-cs!nrl-css!MAILER-DAEMON" telling me that "brl-tgr" was an "Unknown host". It also happened when I tried to answer by mail to some articles posted by Lauren (you-know-who) and another one posted at UC-San-Diego. What's wrong? I noticed that paths given in news articles were not "optimized", but that's how the net is done, and it depends on the route followed by articles. Fine! But I was expecting that, even if it was taking more time that it should to reach the originator, it should reach it somehow. Apparently, it doesn't. Is it a routing problem, or is it an "ARPA-bug" ? Any idea? ========== Sylvain "Carminarem" Langlois (...{seismo}!mcvax!vmucnam!lvbull!sylvain)