[7481] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: mystery NCSA httpd problems on gnn.com
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Ellson)
Thu Feb 2 07:56:11 1995
Date: Thu, 2 Feb 1995 13:29:06 +0100
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Reply-To: ellson@hotair.att.com
From: ellson@hotair.att.com (John Ellson)
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
> From: Robert A. Lentz <hotsand!annie.astro.nwu.edu!lentz>
>
> Greetings,
>
> Does this explain the problems AT&T reported with their caching proxy server
> when Netscape first came out?
Are you refering to an earlier concern from AT&T about Netscape's parallel
GETs? If so, then I don't believe that concern has any bearing on this
current problem.
> Have others seen this problem with caching
> proxy servers, and if so, what are the usage conditions like? (I have been
> pushing for a campus caching proxy server, so am curious as to whether or not
> this might be a problem.)
We also saw problems yesterday which seem to be similar to the ones
that other large server admins are describing in this thread. Our
internal proxy is also in the 100K+ requests/day class. As far as I
can tell our problems are triggered by events upstream of the proxy
server, such as broken firewall machines or problems in the external
internet. Beyond that I have no data yet and I'm still browsing this
thread to get an idea what to look for.
John Ellson ellson@hotair.att.com
AT&T Bell Labs, Holmdel.
