[18091] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: transparent caching....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Vixie)
Fri Jun 26 20:30:43 1998
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Paul Vixie <vixie@wisdom.rc.vix.com>
Date: 26 Jun 1998 17:22:45 -0700
In-Reply-To: mo@UU.NET's message of 26 Jun 1998 08:14:20 -0700
mo@UU.NET (Mike O'Dell) writes:
> I've been talking myself blue in the face for some time now
> trying to convince the never-ending parade of would-be
> cache builders that busting a gut to be "completely
> transparent" was simply not worth the effort because i was
> convinced it would turn out to be a bug and not a feature,
> especially when people had to troubleshoot problems.
I have come to agree with this, in the large. But it was and
remains an interesting technical problem, and I feel strongly
and proudly that our box was the only one that got it *right*.
--
Paul Vixie
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