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- From: dawson@hobbes.bsan.bls.com (Willard Dawson)
- Subject: Re: scheduled events that take phone off-hook?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.174442.1048@hypnos.bssi.bls.com>
- Sender: usenet@hypnos.bssi.bls.com (Usenet Administrator)
- Organization: BellSouth Systems Integration
- References: <930122.145433.6p6.rusnews.w164w@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <w44VXB3w165w@proteus.qc.ca>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 17:44:42 GMT
- Lines: 54
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- randall@proteus.qc.ca (Randall Reid) writes:
-
- >russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Russell Schulz) writes:
- >
- >> for five minutes, I can't foresee a problem (realistically). for longer
- >> periods of, say, a half-hour and up, I can easily imagine some fabled
- >> network trouble indicator light coming on, and no one being pleased that
- >> it was just you wanting to give the world a busy signal.
- >>
- >> I don't know if these things really exist or not, myself.
- >>
- >> again, just ignoring the rings hurts no one, unless your users are clueless
- >> to the point of no return. even then, if they leave, you're just raising
- >> the average IQ of your callers...
- >> --
- >> Russell Schulz russell@alpha3.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca ersys!rschulz Shad 86c
- >
- >Being busy for a user may be OK but for an incoming uucp call its a
- >different story IMHO.
- >
- >I prefer my uucp sites to appear "busy" if they aren't ready to connect to
- >me. The reason is that my Waffle system will respond quickly to a busy
- >signal and I can get on with polling someone else. If the site doesn't
- >answer, Waffle will sit there for 10+ rings waiting to time out.
-
- The answer to that little problem is called "intelligent polling." :-)
- If Tom (or whomever actually owns the darned uucico code) would add support
- for "retry" time management, you could rest a bit easier and worry less
- about your UUCP neighbors going offline. Something like most real UNIX
- uucico's do... "Retry time not reached..."
-
- Of course, if you want to resort to a wrapper program and manage your own
- retry-times (calling uucico with specific sitenames), then you've done
- effectively the same. I don't like that too much, but I'm beginning to
- think it would be worth the effort, especially now that my own UUCP neigh-
- bor count is up around 20, and some of them have had downtime recently.
- As long as only a single host is offline, it's not too much a worry. But,
- when three, four, or more are down, you really lose a bunch of time...
-
- I'd rather just call "uucico -s any" and have uucico do it's own dirty
- work...
-
- >This amounts to a "lot" of wasted time for a system that makes around
- >200 calls/day and has 20 other uucp sites to service (like mine).
- >
- >--
- >Randall J. Reid Internet: randall@proteus.qc.ca | randall@tpg.org
- >Le Groupe Proteus Uucp: uunet!proteus!randall
- >Montreal, Quebec CANADA Voice: +1 514 630 7103, FAX: +1 514 331 7934
- --
- Willard Dawson, BellSouth Advanced Networks, 1100 Johnson Ferry Road, Ste. 880
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