[94448] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: CDN & ISP (was: Re: Google wants to be your Internet)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Smith)
Mon Jan 22 15:32:11 2007
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 06:59:49 +1030
From: Mark Smith <nanog@fa1c52f96c54f7450e1ffb215f29991e.nosense.org>
To: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
Cc: michal@krsek.cz, adrian@creative.net.au, nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0701220414080.14783-100000@linuxbox.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 22 Jan 2007 04:15:44 -0600 (CST)
Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 22 Jan 2007, Michal Krsek wrote:
> >
>
> For broad-band ISPs, whose main goal is not to sell or re-sell transit
> though...
>
> >
> > a) caching systems are not easy to implement and maintain (another system
> > for configuration)
> > b) possible conflict with content owners
> > c) they want to sell as much as possible of bandwidth
> > d) they want to have their network fully transparent
>
> Only a, b apply. d I am not sure I understand.
>
I think (d) is all network testing tools showing a perfect path, which
sould isolate the fault to the remote web server itself, yet the
website not working because the translucent proxy has a fault.
--
"Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly
alert."
- Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
