[8029] in Athena Bugs
[Jerome H Saltzer: Re: Problems with accessing MITnet from the West Coast]
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Ts'o)
Sat Aug 24 18:08:16 1991
Date: Sat, 24 Aug 91 18:08:32 EDT
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Reply-To: tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
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From: saltzer@Pa.dec.com (Jerome H Saltzer)
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 91 16:45:41 PDT
To: network@MIT.EDU, jik@cats.ucsc.edu, mbm@mtl.mit.edu, dbaron@MIT.EDU
Cc: jhs-out@ALLSPICE.LCS.MIT.EDU
Subject: Re: Problems with accessing MITnet from the West Coast
The people at BARRnet offered some constructive suggestions in response
to my forwarding to them a copy of Kamen's inquiry (about whether others
are also having trouble in communication with MITnet from West Coast
locations.) I attach one of those suggestions, and ask in turn whether
or not we might start a campaign to get any network software maintained
by M.I.T. brought up to the suggested specification.
Jerry
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 91 11:39:59 PDT
From: noc@barrnet.net
Office: Pine Hall 167, (415) 723-6860
Subject: Re: more NSF router comments
Reply-To: noc@barrnet.net
...
There are a couple of things we can do to try and alleviate this problem:
1. Get the software fixed which closes connections on reception of an ICMP
unreachable message. This is in direct violation of Host Requirements,
which has been out as an RFC for close to two years now. Beat on the
vendors to fix this - it's the only way you can protect yourself from
a network with transient error conditions.
...
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