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Re: topological closeness....
From: avg () postman ncube com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 18:13:02 +0800
If I could _enforce_ caching by traffic interception then I could construct vaguely logical cache structures as an ISP.
One way to do that is to spoof TCP sessions in the routers :) That is a horrible kludge, though...
But relying on users to configure their end systems with the identity of the closest cache server using some ill defined "network metric" is always going to be an erratic affair at best.
How about allocating fixed IP address for cacheing servers? Routing will take care of locating the "closest" one, and browser vendors would be able to hardwire the default address. Although one can tell that they have little clue and probably won't do anything about it, given such impressive items on their track record as HTTP 1.0 or Netscape HTML extensions. --vadim - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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- Re: topological closeness...., (continued)
- Re: topological closeness.... Paul A Vixie (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Mike Trest (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Geoff Huston (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... George Herbert (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Michael Dillon (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Sanjay Dani (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Matt Zimmerman (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... David R. Conrad (May 15)
- Re: topological closeness.... Vadim Antonov (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Michael Dillon (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Vadim Antonov (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Vadim Antonov (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Jon Zeeff (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Michael Dillon (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Hank Nussbacher (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Vadim Antonov (May 13)
- Re: topological closeness.... Paul Ferguson (May 15)
- Re: topological closeness.... Geoff Huston (May 15)
- Re: topological closeness.... Enzo Michelangeli (May 15)
- Re: topological closeness.... Gopi K Garge (May 16)
- Re: topological closeness.... Miguel A.L. Paraz (May 16)
- Re: topological closeness.... Geoff Huston (May 15)