[AusNOG] squid peering mesh

[Damien Morris]

You hear more about squid being used as transparent caches for paranoid
management to monitor their uses, or as reverse proxies in front of
webservers than caching consumer data these days.

Dynamic web pages, cheaper/faster bandwidth and SPoF issues with proxies
have all seen their use at ISPs diminish.

On 1/02/11 9:40 PM, "Steve Baxter" <steve at thebaxters.com> wrote:

>Chris Foote deserves the kudos for the code.
>
>It was fun to do at the time (who remembers bbc.gif ?) , in the days of
>many thousands of dollars per Mb/sec it was also very practical. I think
>that the idea was quick to die (over years at least) given the advent of
>faster speeds, latency and general traffic flow percentages that were
>cacheable.
>
>Cheers,
>
>SB
>
>PS. Hope you are staying dry Ridgey.
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [mailto:ausnog-
>> bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of John Edwards
>> Sent: Tuesday, 1 February 2011 3:10 PM
>> To: Nathan Ridge
>> Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] squid peering mesh
>> 
>> 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
>> 
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