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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Why aren't ISPs providing stratum 1 NTP service?
On 21 Jul 1996, Dean Gaudet wrote: > >And heavily used WWW servers are another thing that could benefit from > >aligning themselves with the topology. > > The protocols don't support this cleanly. So far nothing I've seen would > allow a single URL to be used to access the "nearest" server. WWW servers can issue a "redirect" to a different URL. Anybody can hack this up with something like Apache by adding index.cgi to the index page possibilities and then enabling .cgi as an extension to automatically run a CGI script which could issue the redirect in the HTTP headers instead of emitting an HTML document. The CGI script would only need to be a simple table lookup similar to what a Cisco's SSP does. Of course their needs to be something more intelligent (like BGP to continue the analogy) that builds and maintains the lookup table based on some sort of heuristics. > Until > something like that exists It exists right now. Several people are doing this kind of thing. It's just not an off-the-shelf product. Yet. > the topology. Your suggested use of redirects just complicates things -- > consider how the URLs would end up looking in a search engine. Life is never perfect. ;-) Michael Dillon - ISP & Internet Consulting Memra Software Inc. - Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com - E-mail: [email protected] - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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