[14156] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: caching at windmills (i mean exchange points)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Dec 2 12:31:47 1997
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 97 09:14 PST
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Ton Verschuren <Ton.Verschuren@surfnet.nl>
Cc: k claffy <kc@nlanr.net>, nanog@merit.edu, ircache@nlanr.net
> I read your proposal an have a question. I assume that your MAE-west
> cache will act as a parent for the MW ISP's (otherwise, there's no data
> in the cache). That means that all outbound traffic from MW is routed
> through your cache, isn't it? That also means that e.g. all
> transatlantic traffic will flow through your lines. Or am I missing
> something?
You are not differentiating between an proxy cache and an interceptor
cache. The NLANR cache is a proxy cache. Clients/peers/children must
consciously point at it.
randy
