[AusNOG] squid peering mesh

[John Edwards]

Once upon a time something like this was run over SAIX in South Australia.

http://www1.ie.squid-cache.org/mail-archive/squid-users/199811/0028.html

You may recognise one of the names from PIPE as the creator. I'm not sure what happened to the special "CSS" code that made a mesh more practical.

It's hard to imagine a squid mesh improving the performance of today's switched networks, due to the additional latency of querying multiple servers you have no control over hundreds of times per second - happy to be corrected if Adrian is lurking :)

John



On 01/02/2011, at 2:58 PM, Nathan Ridge wrote:

> I was wondering if there is any current existence of a squid peering 
> mesh over pipe ix? or if in fact this would be a breach of pipe T&C in 
> any way?
> 
> Would be great to peer with some other squid boxes, save on some www on 
> our wan links and improve speed to our customers.
> 
> Nathan