Written by Per Persson <pp@pfawww.pp.se>, last update: 1996-06-18

1) Europe should always be a separate net from the other parts of
   (what was formerly known as) "EFNet".  For example; Netherlands
   with leafs and Sweden/Finland (with leafs) should always be
   connected to eachother. There are a few times when that wont work
   though... NORDUnet might have fuckups from time to time and in
   those few cases we have to use more then one link to USA.

2) Europe "should" be connected this way; 

	* irc.nada.kth.se is the primary HUB for northern Europe as well
	as some southern European servers (.at). irc.nada.kth.se is
	also the primary European HUB for connections to US.
	* warszawa.irc.pl is the primary .pl HUB, primary uplink for .pl 
	is .se with .fi/.at as secondary
	(.pl is almost never connected to "EFNet" right now)
	* ircd.funet.fi is the primary .fi HUB and irc.cs.hut.fi is the 
	backup.
	* irc.pvv.unit.no is the primary .no HUB and irc.ifi.uio.no is
	the backup, primary uplink for .no is .se with .fi as secondary.
	* irc.ru is the primary .ru HUB, primary uplink is .fi with .se as
	secondary.
	* irc.isnet.is's primary uplink is .fi, irc.ludd.luth.se is secondary
	* sunsite.auc.dk's primary uplink is irc.nada.kth.se
	* irc.ccii.unipi.it is the primary HUB for Italy, primary uplink is
	.se with .nl/.uk as secondary.
	* irc.felk.cvut.cz is the primary .cz HUB, primary uplink is .se.
	* irc.sanet.sk's primary uplink is .cz.

	* irc.nijnerode.nl is the primary HUB for sourthern Europe and .uk. 
	Primary uplink is irc.ludd.luth.se(irc.nada.kth.se) with .fi as
	secondary
	* irc.univ-lyon1.fr is the primary .fr HUB and
	sil.polytechnique.fr is the backup. primary uplink for .fr is
	irc.ludd.luth.se and secondary uplink for .fr is irc.cerf.net.
	* stork.doc.ic.ac.uk is the primary .uk HUB and serv.eng.abdn.ac.uk
	is the backup. Primary uplink is .nl with .se/.fi as secondary.
	(.uk also has a .net server, as well as a netcom.net.uk server which
	uses a bit different uplinks--the rest of the .uk servers are 
	connected to those on occasions as well)
	* irc.belnet.be is the primary .be HUB, primary uplink for .be is
	.uk with .fr/.nl as secondary.
	* irc.wu-wien.ac.at is the primary .at HUB, primary uplink for
	.at is .fr with .se as secondary.
	* irc.uni-paderborn.de is the primary .de HUB, primary uplink for 
	.de is .nl with .fi as secondary.
	(.de isn't often connected, as they have sloooow links)
	* irc.arnes.si's primary uplink is .nl, secondary uplink is .se.

	* The primary link for Europe to USA is; .se - USA 
	backups are; .fi/.nl - USA
	(USA can be one of the following; cs-pub.bu.edu, ircd.stealth.net
	eff.org, bazooka.rutgers.edu or irc.cerf.net.  irc.cerf.net
	is the prefered one nowadays with ircd.stealth.net as secondary)

3) The ASCII map of all this, to make things "easier to comprehend".

                         
    (.no .dk .pl .it) __ .se __ .fi __ (.is .ru)
                         /|\        
           .uk __ .nl __/ | \__ .cz __ (.sk)
            |      |      |
          (.be)    |     .fr __ (.at)
                   |
             (.si .ch .de)

   ()'s marks leafs
\ _ /'s marks links