Re: Squid vs. Netscape Proxy

At 07:59 AM 4/21/98 +1200, Joe Abley wrote:

>> ?? - CARP makes all three servers appear as a single server
>
>You could use round-robin DNS to spread client connections over all three
>caches, and run ICP between the caches. For example, if you have cache1,
>cache2 and cache3 numbered as 10.1.1.1, 10.1.2.1 and 10.1.3.1 you could
>use
>
> cache1 IN A 10.1.1.1
> cache2 IN A 10.1.2.1
> cache3 IN A 10.1.3.1
> cache IN CNAME cache1
> IN CNAME cache2
> IN CNAME cache3
>
>If clients connect to "cache" always (and not "cache1", "cache2" or
>"cache3") then the load will be crudely spread across the machines.

Ok, this makes sense if all the caches are located on the same "LAN". But
they will be distributed over a WAN. So I want to make sure that users
that are dialed into a POP closest to Ankara use the Ankara squid, Istanbul
users should use Istanbul, etc.

Mike

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Michael Ferioli ferioli@comnet.net.tr
Comnet A.S. http://www.comnet.net.tr
Received on Mon Apr 20 1998 - 23:29:03 MDT