Re: Squid vs. Netscape Proxy

At 09:24 AM 4/21/98 -0400, Michael Pelletier wrote:
>On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Michael Ferioli wrote:
>
>> At 09:12 AM 4/21/98 +1200, Joe Abley wrote:
>> >
>> >I think the original poster was talking about distributing three caches
>> >(or cache clusters) in the wide area. A cluster of unix boxes running
>> >squid in each city (with round-robin DNS set up to spread load across each
>> >machine in the cluster) should work pretty well.
>>
>> Exactly. But do you really think DNS round robin is a good solution?
>> Why would an Ankara user use the Istanbul Cache? That wastes
>> bandwidth which kind of defeats the whole idea of proxying.
>
>If that's the case, then proxy.pac is the clear solution -- just use the
>"myIpAddressIs()" function and the "isInNet()" function and pick the
>appropriate proxy server based on that. However, the original poster
>mentioned "CARP," which is a load-balancing, cache-sharing protocol, isn't
>it?

Yes, there is no question that .pac files will work, but for which browsers?
Someone said earlier in the list that IE4 broke autoconfig. Is that
true?

Mike

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Received on Tue Apr 21 1998 - 06:34:22 MDT