[18149] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Digex transparent proxying
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rich Sena)
Sun Jun 28 13:24:45 1998
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 08:16:51 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rich Sena <ras@poppa.clubrich.tiac.net>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199806281637.JAA23297@condor.mhsc.com>
On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
> How, pray tell, are they maximizing their distro and what? They way I
> understand it, they proxy-cache digex has set up optimizes for html, but
> screws everything else. Please tell me if I'm wrong.
Hmmm - you're wrong... the only traffic that would be diverted to this
cache is port 80 - if they are using an alteon switch then the alteon
makes a decision to redirect port 80 traffic ONLY to the port that the
cache is connected to.
> FYI, 80 to 90 percent of our served traffic is SSH encrypted, or SSL with
> nil TTLs.
Differnt port...
> Caching is fine for non-transient data. I have yet to see either an SSL or
> SSH stream meet these requirements. With privacy issues coming to the
> fore-front, a transient domain is much more likely to encounter these types
> of streams.
Not effected...
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