Re: AS based peer selection?

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Guenther Blatzheim wrote:

]We used squid successful over the years. But by now the domain based peer
]selection seems to be to static to me. As an alternative there should be a
]AS based selection as well.

There is.

]My last example are the educational institutions in Germany. They don't
]use .edu or another good feasable naming scheme. But they are AS1275 (at
]least most of them). If I would like to direct such requests to a
]special parent, a AS selection would be the easiest and most accurate
]choice.

See: http://www.cache.dfn.de/DFN-Cache/DFN-Caches/Squid2-Conf.html
     (sorry, German only)

The German E&R cache admins already advise to use AS based routing for
their cache hierarchy, if participants use Squid-2. Also, they advise
participants within AS1275 to go directly for AS 1275 1754 5520 8450 and
3211 servers, as the latency is usually lower. blatzheim.com is beyond
DE-CIX (the inner German exchange point) from our point of view, and
therefore should not participate in the E&R caching hierarchy.

Le deagh dhùrachd,
Dipl.-Ing. Jens-S. Vöckler (voeckler@rvs.uni-hannover.de)
Institute for Computer Networks and Distributed Systems
University of Hanover, Germany; +49 511 762 4726
Received on Tue Apr 06 1999 - 01:49:38 MDT