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Re: Apple Airport Extreme IPv6 problems?

  • From: Adrian Chadd
  • Date: Sun Sep 16 10:34:05 2007 
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