Well here's three reasons: 1) they use DECnet area 1 thus area collision 2) they use some of the names we already use thus name space collision 3) and from what I remember, they are entirely dynamic DNS based and thus had to make major changes to the bridge to even exist. The changes they made work just fine, BTW... -Steve -----Original Message----- From: owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE [mailto:owner-hecnet at Update.UU.SE] On Behalf Of Johnny Billquist Sent: Friday, November 25, 2011 9:25 PM To: hecnet at Update.UU.SE Subject: Re: [HECnet] Integrating with the Italian network. On 2011-11-26 03.02, Sampsa Laine wrote: I've been thinking that it's a bit silly to have two separate hobby DECNETs, so I figured we should get connected to the Italian net as well. Any ideas? Sure. They are welcome to join anytime. They know it. I've been talking with them since before they came online, since they asked me for help as well as permission to use by bridge program (which I think they've also modified slightly). Unless I remember wrong, one or two of them are also subscribed here. I no longer remember the reason they didn't connect from the start, but I'm pretty sure they had a reason. Johnny