Hi!   
      
   Mar 17 10:37 2018, mark lewis wrote to Alexey Vissarionov:   
      
    BF>>>> Thanks to the FidoWeb yes, but still not the most efficient path   
    BF>>>> from within R20.   
      
   When you deploy dupe rings the redundancy matters. Anyway, it's still FIFO,   
   i.e. the fastest path wins even if it's longer than another one. The echomail   
   traveling the slower path ends up in the dupe area.   
      
    ml>>> there is no provision in anything FTN for figuring out and following   
    ml>>> the fastest path from one system to another   
      
    AV>> Most of the Fidonet doesn't need that.   
      
   Something like dynamic routing for netmail would be interesting.   
      
    ml>>> so there's no way to figure any sort of ""efficient path"" from   
    ml>>> anywhere to anywhere else...   
      
    AV>> There is at least one quite similar to OSPF, but documenting it would   
    AV>> take a whole eternity - first translate the "brief" description from   
    AV>> Russian, after that write an FSP... just for 10...20 more nodes to   
    AV>> have a bit faster netmail delivery?   
      
   Could you please elaborate on that?   
      
    ml> we're talking about echomail, though... but yes, it isn't worth it to    
    ml> try to do anything to figure it out... documenting not withstanding...    
    ml> it would require non-mail traffic and a lot of probing of mailers and    
    ml> tossers to somehow pull routing information that can be consolidated    
    ml> into some sort of a map... that was painful back in the day when it    
    ml> was done and many refused to provide such mappings because it is none    
    ml> of anyone else's business where one's mailer(s) connect for mail    
    ml> transfers...   
      
   The internet wouldn't work with that attitude. But there are filters for   
   hiding your secrets ;)   
      
   I think we should move this discussion to another echo.   
      
   ciao,   
   Markus   
      
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