[12504] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Traffic Engineering (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Dillon)
Thu Sep 18 14:58:10 1997
In-Reply-To: <199709181649.MAA20691@internal.terra.net>
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 11:45:05 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Michael Dillon <michael@priori.net>
>> map-exchanging scheme), three huge churny databases
>> (the mapping of information to URL, the mapping of
>> hostname to IP address and the mapping of IP addresses to
>> paths)
>Just for the record, I *was* kidding. I don't actually think I have the time
>or expertise to make it work. However, I think the idea is worth looking at.
>Two of the "three huge churny databases" (info to URL, url to IP) already are
>in place, and I bet the overhead involved in an un-cached IP lookup is a lot
>more than that of an SPF walk through a BGP tree.
Some people already have a database of IP address to path that is used to
more effectively route traffic from caching proxy hierarchies over multiple
international connections.
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