[3615] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why aren't people changing their subject lines when
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Justin W. Newton)
Fri Jul 26 10:55:26 1996
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 10:46:27 -0400
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
From: "Justin W. Newton" <justin@erols.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 11:42 PM 7/25/96 -0700, you wrote:
>> Isn't IBM doing some sort of fancy load redistribution for the WWW
>> servers its running for the 1996 Summer Olympics? I seem to recall they
>> were determining the "closest" server via a technique called "ping
>> triangulation", whatever that is.
>
>If so, that's pretty silly and is probably not leading to performance
>that's very different from either purely random or strict round robin.
>
>Ping times only correlate to available bandwidth when congestion is bad.
>Otherwise these two factors are militantly unrelated to each other.
Well, I suppose all they have to do is buil a global OSPF network
encompassing the entire internet and they'd be set.
Justin "Yes I'm kidding" Newton
Justin Newton
Internet Architect
Erol's Internet Services
