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At 08:16 AM 6/28/98 -0400, Rich Sena wrote: >On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote: > >> How, pray tell, are they maximizing their distro and what? They way I >> understand it, they proxy-cache digex has set up optimizes for html, but >> screws everything else. Please tell me if I'm wrong. > >Hmmm - you're wrong... the only traffic that would be diverted to this >cache is port 80 - if they are using an alteon switch then the alteon >makes a decision to redirect port 80 traffic ONLY to the port that the >cache is connected to. Thank you. So if I provide my links on a different port then I by-pass the proxy, cute. However, many of my customers have some ferocious firewalls that only allow port 80. Of course those machines are running their apache somewhere else. But, I use port 80 to run an SSH tunnel to them. >> FYI, 80 to 90 percent of our served traffic is SSH encrypted, or SSL with >> nil TTLs. > >Differnt port... > >> Caching is fine for non-transient data. I have yet to see either an SSL or >> SSH stream meet these requirements. With privacy issues coming to the >> fore-front, a transient domain is much more likely to encounter these types >> of streams. > >Not effected... > > >-- >I am nothing if not net-Q! - [email protected] > ___________________________________________________ Roeland M.J. Meyer, ISOC (InterNIC RM993) e-mail: <mailto:[email protected]>[email protected] Internet phone: hawk.mhsc.com Personal web pages: <http://www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer>www.mhsc.com/~rmeyer Company web-site: <http://www.mhsc.com/>www.mhsc.com/ ___________________________________________ SecureMail from MHSC.NET is coming soon!
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