[98510] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Content Delivery Networks
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rodney Joffe)
Fri Aug 10 12:19:12 2007
In-Reply-To: <F309C677-7D86-4F17-AF2E-E742EBCB64B5@nizzles.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Rodney Joffe <rjoffe@centergate.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:17:28 -0700
To: Max Inux <maxinux@nizzles.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Aug 10, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Max Inux wrote:
> Working for a content delivery network I can tell you that there
> are many nameservers ignoring TTL that affect many users (AOL
> being the largest american one). Coincidentally AOL users aren't
> nearly so affected by that as they are that their data goes to
> Virginia to enter the internet negating close-to-end-user
> acceleration benefits.
>
> Additionally there are several networks off of Singtel (Singapore/
> Southern asia/oceania), Many in Australia (Likely due to Squid
> caches to prevent egress), and in Europe (Mostly France) that I
> have specifically ran into that had this disregard for TTL impact
> them. In short, they are out there, and they will bite you from
> time to time if your network is widely enough used.
Specifics? Off list is fine.
