[19458] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Starr report - as seen from MAE East
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Szarka)
Mon Sep 14 00:07:05 1998
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 16:54:07 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert Szarka <szarka@downcity.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.980911194248.11989A-100000@guinness.digisle.
net>
At 01:45 AM 9/12/98 , scott w wrote:
>
>Maybe folks are not as interested as the press thinks.
Or maybe a lot of us mirrored it locally. I had the report and the
President's response(s) up here around 2200 EDT the day it came out and so
far something like 10-15% of our subscriber base has hit our local copy.
Then add to that the increased use of caching these days (we run a small
caching proxy server). Seems plausible to me that the traffic increased
initially but fell off as the report got cached and mirrored locally.
The servers had to have been a bottleneck, too. The LOC and CNN servers
seemed to be doing reasonably well, but for a while the report was
unavailable at LOC while they fixed errors in the footnotes. The
Whitehouse servers/connections, which have never been stellar, seemed to
have been hammered pretty badly at one point...
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Robert Szarka
Managing Partner, Operations
DownCity, LLC
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