[2925] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: topological closeness....
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jon Zeeff)
Mon May 13 21:49:41 1996
From: jon@branch.com (Jon Zeeff)
To: avg@postman.ncube.com (Vadim Antonov)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 21:48:24 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: avg@postman.ncube.com, mo@uunet.uu.net, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9605140133.AA00209@butler.ncube.com> from "Vadim Antonov" at May 13, 96 06:33:36 pm
> Well, i simply pointed out that solution based on
> *hosts* choosing the best paths in global networks
> is not going to work. It is in the same category as
> source-based routing.
Actually, people do both and it seems to work well enough.
Some web servers track throughput to sites and redirect users to
mirror sites based on that data.
Some routers route based on source address (for various policy reasons,
including load).
