• Re: Internetwork routing

    From Nick Andre@1:229/426 to John Dovey on Wed May 4 20:34:12 2022
    On 03 May 22 22:00:21, John Dovey said the following to Mike Powell:

    I suspect the solution to this would be a political/technical one. If the "powers that be" within Fidonet established a single "interzone routing hub with all the procedural and technical issues that go along with that, and pushed out a requirement/advisory that all FTN networks could/should set up default inter-zone routing via that hub, it could make it all possible.

    The powers that be?!?

    - One running the Twilight Zone does not speak English.
    - One in Aussie-land who is nice but appears to have a very busy career.
    - One who is also busy and boasts of shitting in cardboard boxes on sailboats. - And one in this zone currently working 3 jobs to support his household.

    That is your ZCC... believe me, any "requirements/advisory" things for
    routing things we have no obligation or desire to route would be laughed wholeheartedly into oblivion and dragged up for decades in the next flamewar.

    Nick

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  • From John Dovey@4:920/1.1 to Paul Hayton on Sun May 15 00:42:58 2022

    On 01 May 2022 at 02:50p, Alan Ianson pondered and said...

    If you sent a netmail to a node in Z21 via 1:153/757 it would be routed
    to one of the hubs in Z21 and from there go to the destination node.

    It depends on whether the node you route the mail to has links in Z21.

    I'm late to this thread but speaking in terms of Zone 21 the Fido HUB I run 3:770/1 has links to Zone 21 so any fsxNet netmail from Fidonet is welcome to be routed via that Zone 3 HUB. I'd also welcome links between 3:770/1 and other systems in Zones 1-4 to help build this routing resilience out further.

    Awesome. So I can route any mail destined for zone 21 to 3:770/1? Just checking I've got it clear ...

    JD
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