[net.news] Something neat to do with mkpath output

silver (04/01/83)

If by now you've used mkpath (from net.sources) to create a mail paths list
for nmail (localized for your system), you might like to try the following:

( sed "s/[^!]//g" | sort | uniq -c ) </usr/lib/PATHS

The result is a rough idea of how far away the world is from you, as a count
of machines and number of hops required (one "!" per hop).  Here's the result
on this system, for example:


  10 !
  23 !!
  33 !!!
  60 !!!!
  75 !!!!!
 106 !!!!!!
  46 !!!!!!!
  70 !!!!!!!!
  32 !!!!!!!!!
  10 !!!!!!!!!!
   5 !!!!!!!!!!!
   2 !!!!!!!!!!!!

bstempleton (04/03/83)

The results from this mkpath output indicate that people really should
not use mkpath, but rather use Steve Bellovin's program and data, which
produces far more optimal path.

Better yet:  START SWITCHING TO INTERNET PEOPLE!!!!
WHAT IS HOLDING YOU BACK?????

Here's my run of the ! counter in the path list

   3 
  27 !
 250 !!
 741 !!!
 241 !!!!
  62 !!!!!
  20 !!!!!!
   7 !!!!!!!