Re: Content Delivery Networks

[Rodney Joffe <rjoffe () centergate com>]

On Aug 13, 2007, at 2:25 AM, Florian Weimer wrote:

> * Rodney Joffe:
>
> > Do you have any real examples of significant recursive servers doing
> > this?
>
> nscd in GNU libc has issues related to cache expiry.  I'm not sure if
> it is general brokenness, or some TTL-related issue.  It's use is not
> terribly widespread, and it's a host-specific cache only, but there's
> a certain installation base.

Thanks Florian. So this looks like a code "feature", not stupid  
behavior by deployers. I'll keep a note when we fingerprint  
misbehaving systems in the future.

/rlj

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