[3539] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why aren't ISPs providing stratum 1 NTP service?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dean Gaudet)
Sun Jul 21 18:43:50 1996
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: dgaudet@hotwired.com (Dean Gaudet)
Date: 21 Jul 1996 22:30:38 GMT
In article <hot.mailing-lists.nanog-Pine.BSI.3.93.960719091042.14736C-100000@sidhe.memra.com>,
Michael Dillon <michael@memra.com> wrote:
>And heavily used WWW servers are another thing that could benefit from
>aligning themselves with the topology.
The protocols don't support this cleanly. So far nothing I've seen would
allow a single URL to be used to access the "nearest" server. Until
something like that exists (i.e. the end users don't need to know a thing
about network topology) it seems pointless to align WWW servers with
the topology. Your suggested use of redirects just complicates things --
consider how the URLs would end up looking in a search engine.
Dean
