[AusNOG] squid peering mesh

[Chris Keladis]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 9:09 AM, Damien Morris <damien at yahoo-inc.com> wrote:

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.
>

On the subject of reverse-proxies, i've heard Varnish is pretty sweet (read:
fast) :)

http://www.varnish-cache.org/about



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

When long-fat-pipes (satellite and the like) were all the rage, proxy's
helped reduce HTTP RTTs (or increased them for a miss) :)

But these days, as they say, YMMV :)


Chris.
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