[80099] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Slashdot: Providers Ignoring DNS TTL?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun Apr 24 17:51:17 2005
Date: Sun, 24 Apr 2005 17:50:46 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <6.2.0.14.0.20050424155328.060290e0@mail.comcast.net>; from "Robert M. Enger" <enger@comcast.net> on Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 04:00:40PM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Apr 24, 2005 at 04:00:40PM -0400, Robert M. Enger wrote:
> In your note below you speak of 'moving on to something else' when
> PPLB comes.
No, I actually don't.
> PPLB destabilizes TCP. It elicits erroneous retransmissions, squanders
> capacity and lowers performance.
>
> You are suggesting that we replace TCP in all the computers in the
> world?
Nope. I was observing generically that if people who take advantage of
a technology window to supply a supportive technology (video capture
cards for PC's) are smart, the *really* smart people are those who are
prepared to move along to something else when the mainstream catches up
(DV/Firewire) and their product is no longer necessary.
Cheers,
-- jra
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