Re: Why aren't people changing their subject lines when threads drift?

["Justin W. Newton" <justin () erols com>]

At 11:42 PM 7/25/96 -0700, you wrote:
> > Isn't IBM doing some sort of fancy load redistribution for the WWW 
> > servers its running for the 1996 Summer Olympics?  I seem to recall they 
> > were determining the "closest" server via a technique called "ping 
> > triangulation", whatever that is.
>
> If so, that's pretty silly and is probably not leading to performance
> that's very different from either purely random or strict round robin.
>
> Ping times only correlate to available bandwidth when congestion is bad.
> Otherwise these two factors are militantly unrelated to each other.


Well, I suppose all they have to do is buil a global OSPF network
encompassing the entire internet and they'd be set.

Justin "Yes I'm kidding" Newton

Justin Newton
Internet Architect
Erol's Internet Services

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