the Internet Backbone

Sun Apr 7 19:00:44 UTC 1996

> On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Avi Freedman wrote:
> 
> > Perhaps you can tell me where PSI connects, good sir...
> > By my count it's MAE-East and CIX and nowhere else.
> [snip]
> 
> While I agree with the point Avi was trying to make I thought I might 
> point out the little tidbit below:
> traceroute to www.psi.net (38.8.64.2), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
> [snip]
<snip>
>  8  mae-west.psi.com (198.32.136.23)  145.853 ms  145.555 ms  136.282 ms
>  9  core.net99.psi.net (38.1.2.10)  208.164 ms  180.217 ms  140.287 ms
> 10  www2.psi.net (38.8.64.2)  208.077 ms  154.819 ms  220.8 ms
> 
> What are the odds that "mae-west.psi.com" is actually a PSI router at 
> MAE-west?
> 
> Christopher E Stefan

I & others (I'm sure) are happy to hear that PSI is increasing their
connectivity.

Avi