[2924] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: topological closeness....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Herbert)
Mon May 13 21:34:44 1996
To: gih@aarnet.edu.au (Geoff Huston)
Cc: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov), nanog@merit.edu, gherbert@crl.com
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 14 May 1996 10:09:44 +1000."
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 18:20:24 -0700
From: George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com>
Having a dynamic determination of which cache to use (say, by using
the one which responds fastest to a ping) wouldn't be so bad though.
Have each site keep a list of cache servers it considers close enough,
and pick the one with the instantaneous best performance whenever
fetching something.
-george william herbert
gherbert@crl.com
