lee@rochester.UUCP (Lee Moore) (08/03/83)
One of the problems with using nmail is that is doesn't take into account the quality of the connection. When I use nmail, I regularly find I have to edit the path to make it faster. Unfortuately, there isn't a generalized version of uuname that also give the quality of the connection. The main problem of implementing such a program is the distributed nature of the information needed to rate the quality of a connection. Typically this information is spread over L.sys, crontab, uucp.hourly and so on. It would be nice if there were a central UUCP configuration program that would take a list of connections and build the appropriate files. For example one might say: allegra hourly 123-4576 <login info> decvax polled ucbvax direct /dev/tty0 dagobah polled SECRET Then a program would be run over this and the various files would be created. In addition a "quality of connection" value would be assigned to each connection. Neigboring sites could then execute a modified uuname call and get this information which would then be used as fodder to pathalias. Note that some connections could be secret so that they won't be distributed to other sites. -- = lee@rochester rochester!lee =
smb@ulysses.UUCP (08/03/83)
I've written (and in the past posted to net.sources) a pathfinder that does take "quality" (whatever that is) into account. The problem is maintaining the database; it's *far* more work than I bargained for, and is the main reason I've never reposted it. --Steve