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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
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Posted: Mon Feb  4 23:41:31 1985
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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?

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Sylvain "Carminarem" Langlois	(...{seismo}!mcvax!vmucnam!lvbull!sylvain)