Hi,

On 2016-01-26 11:49:54, mark lewis wrote to Stephen Hurd:
  about: "FidoNews 33:04 [01/05]: List Of Fidonet Ipv6 Nodes":

 WV>> There was never a need for a specific area to discuss this. You just
 WV>> set up links as you please, no rocket science there... ;)

 ml> the main thing about the fidoweb is that you (can) connect to more than
one
 ml> system for the same area... dupes are the way of life as they supposedly
 ml> ensure that all systems connected to an area will get all posts in that
 ml> area... the fidoweb is, in essence, the ultimate "route around the
 ml> bastards" distribution system for echomail...

You can leave out the "supposedly". My feed is much better than a couple of
years back when I had just the single uplink. There were sometimes gaps of
weeks in the feed of particular areas. And that was always caused by some
problem up "the chain". Nowadays that never happens...

 ml> one "problem" that still remains is that seenbys can still be used to
 ml> prevent systems from getting posts... another problem is that nets cannot
 ml> be duplicated across zones... this applies to systems carrying othernets
 ml> and gated echos, too... this because the seenbys and paths are only 2D
 ml> (net/node)...

Those are not specific problems to the fidoweb way of routing/connecting.

Bye, Wilfred.


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