[99300] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adrian Chadd)
Sun Sep 16 10:27:24 2007
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 22:30:29 +0800
From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@creative.net.au>
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <49C1BEB7-E9CD-4D35-BB78-E6AC015BB6B2@muada.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
> >We see the browser cache bite us regularly with regard to the way
> >they dip into the cache for long-stale records today.
>
> Does browser caching still work these days? I thought all web admins
> disabled it on their servers because they can't be bothered to think
> about which cache directives to send along with each page. I can
> rarely return to a previously viewed page without the browser hitting
> the network, in any event.
Not all Web Admins do. At least, people still see ~30% byte hit rates
on Squid caches. ;)
Besides, these are two different things - browser DNS caching and
browser content caching.
Adrian
