[18099] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: transparent caching....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Irving)
Sat Jun 27 10:40:50 1998
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 09:08:16 -0500
From: Richard Irving <rirving@onecall.net>
Reply-To: rirving@onecall.net
To: Paul Vixie <vixie@wisdom.rc.vix.com>
CC: nanog@merit.edu
Paul,
I am not surprised that your box is the only one that *got it right*.
Having a clue has *always* been the advantage of the internet,
and I think you hit that category ;)
Talk has always been cheap.
Paul Vixie wrote:
>
> 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
> La Honda, CA "Many NANOG members have been around
> <paul@vix.com> longer than most." --Jim Fleming
> pacbell!vixie!paul (An H.323 GateKeeper for the IPv8 Network)
