Re: [TCLUG:14694] Oh, how I love my many legged Squid... (was RE: Napster)

["Eric M. Hopper" <hopper@omnifarious.mn.org>]

On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:23:22AM -0600, chewie@wookimus.net wrote:
> 
> If you use a networked family of caching servers, you bypass much of
> the problem with bandwidth concerns.  By caching and localizing this
> information, you effectively create a fetch-once view-multiple-times
> scenario.  IIRC, napster DOES allow you to use a proxying server.  If
> it's an HTTP protocol, then it's a no brainer.  Frankly, I'm surprised
> that I haven't heard anything about the University of MN incorporating
> a cache farm for their networks.  Put a couple terrabytes of harddrive
> cache for the students to use, regardless of the content, and you'll
> see a large drop in the Internet bandwidth consumption.  Localize
> these servers at strategic nodes on the U's backbone, and you'll see a
> drop in backbone traffic.

	*grin* One potential problem with this is that this makes it
even more likely that the music industry will go after the U of MN.
After all, copyrighted material will now be cached on their servers.

	A good idea though.

	Perhaps someone could go to the Napster people and see if they
can be convinced to make a version of Napster that uses more predictable
ports.  The problem is that they can't appear to have done this on the
behalf of a university.  :-)

Have fun (if at all possible),
-- 
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