From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <48853c934532586e889a8746b62854ad@plan9.bell-labs.com> From: David Presotto To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Speaking of routing.... In-Reply-To: <200302140031.h1E0VcM24680@augusta.math.psu.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-pljginhvvjydywfjaioazwteqy" Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:34:17 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5e7e86be-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-pljginhvvjydywfjaioazwteqy Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mostly because I got tired of typing that much. --upas-pljginhvvjydywfjaioazwteqy Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from plan9.cs.bell-labs.com ([135.104.9.2]) by plan9; Thu Feb 13 19:32:18 EST 2003 Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by plan9; Thu Feb 13 19:32:16 EST 2003 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.23.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 6A13F19AC0; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:32:10 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from math.psu.edu (leibniz.math.psu.edu [146.186.130.2]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id 95CA119ABF for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:31:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from augusta.math.psu.edu (augusta.math.psu.edu [146.186.132.2]) by math.psu.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id TAA19408 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:31:39 -0500 (EST) Received: from augusta.math.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by augusta.math.psu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h1E0VcM24680 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:31:38 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200302140031.h1E0VcM24680@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Speaking of routing.... In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:21:27 EST." From: Dan Cross Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 19:31:38 -0500 > Actually, dial does currently dial /net first and then > /net.alt. It's a hack I've never been too proud of > but I like it better than changing every single service > to check where the call is coming from, mistakes there > are too easy. Okay, here's a question; I honestly don't understand something. Why do so many servers take a ``-x'' option to set the network mount point, instead of taking the (presumably more general) ``-A announce_string'' (or whatever you want to call it, if -A doesn't float your boat)? Can't the nework directory be adequately specified using the announce string syntax: /netdir/proto!addr!service or whatever? - Dan C. --upas-pljginhvvjydywfjaioazwteqy--