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Re: transparent caching....

  • From: Paul Vixie
  • Date: Fri Jun 26 20:29:58 1998

[email protected] (Mike O'Dell) writes:

> I've been talking myself blue in the face for some time now
> trying to convince the never-ending parade of would-be
> cache builders that busting a gut to be "completely
> transparent" was simply not worth the effort because i was
> convinced it would turn out to be a bug and not a feature,
> especially when people had to troubleshoot problems.

I have come to agree with this, in the large.  But it was and
remains an interesting technical problem, and I feel strongly
and proudly that our box was the only one that got it *right*.
-- 
Paul Vixie
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