Re: Telstra says "(squid infrastructure) not Y2K ready"

Yes, they were running at least three Squid-1 boxes. One is still running -
ozric.telstra.net 3128 with Squid-1.1.21 but others appear to have been shut
down.

Part of the plan was most likely the publicity they received when they made
a reduced charge for traffic obtained through this proxy (12c/MB vs 19c/MB
DIRECT). Proxy traffic used to be charged at the same rate as direct, until
they bought the new boxes. The new proxies are also feeding of satellite
bandwidth.

Btw, they're now running a monstrous farm of NetCache 4.0R4D1 boxes, I read
something on their web site about 700G worth of cache space...
What do these boxes cost, btw?

Reuben

----- Original Message -----
From: "Clifton Royston" <cliftonr@lava.net>
To: "David" <dave@northnet.com.au>
Cc: <squid-users@ircache.net>
Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 12:51 PM
Subject: Re: Telstra says "(squid infrastructure) not Y2K ready"

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2000 at 11:57:52AM +1100, David wrote:
> > Sorry about the single page, but they have frames running. I'm sure
> > you can figure out where the main site is.
> >
> > Telstra is australias biggest ISP and ICP.
> >
> > They have replaced the Squid infrastructure with a new proxy system.
> > I dont know what it is. I have a nasty suspiscion they were trying to
> > move people onto this system.
>
> Well, if you go back to an old enough version of Squid, it isn't.
> Maybe they had been running Squid 1.1 something, and decided it was
> easier to switch to something altogether different than to upgrade, and
> easier to blame Squid than to justify their decision.
>
> -- Clifton
>
> --
> Clifton Royston -- LavaNet Systems Architect -- cliftonr@lava.net
> "An absolute monarch would be absolutely wise and good.
> But no man is strong enough to have no interest.
> Therefore the best king would be Pure Chance.
> It is Pure Chance that rules the Universe;
> therefore, and only therefore, life is good." - AC
>
>
Received on Sun Jan 23 2000 - 20:13:25 MST