14.4k Sprint Net Nodes (or hunts).
James M. Egelhof
writes:
> Oh, and BTW, what
> the hell is a 'hunt'??? They are called 'nodes', or 'rotaries'.
Okay, it looks like Jason needs a lesson in telephones.
When a site wants to have more than one phone connection at a time, it
requires more than one phone line. Panix, for example, has 300 or so phone
lines. Obviously, giving out 300 phone numbers and saying "try these until
you connect" is impractical.
What the geniuses at AT&T created was the "hunt group," which is often called
a "hunt," i.e. "the 14.4 hunt." It is a sequence of phone lines tied
together; when one is busy, the next one is tried, and then the next, and so
on, until a free line is found (and that line rings) or you reach the last
line (and you get a busy signal.) For example:
(212) 741-4444
--> 741-4445
--> 741-4446
[...]
--> 741-4544 (end of hunt)
This, of course, assumes the phones are in order (which they usually are not).
The two terms you supply (node and rotary), Jason, demonstrate your complete
ineptitude and idiocy on this subject. It cannot be a "rotary" because there
is no rotation or circle; there is a straight line of phones that has
definite begin and end points. The term "node" might apply to the whole
Sprint dialup site, but it has nothing to do with the actual phone pool.
Moron.
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