[squid-users] Re: Akamai-like CDN using squid and a DNS trick

Vicente Aguilar wrote:
> Long story short: all the users of a particular ISP had problems
> accessing our pages because of a routing problem between that ISP and
> ours. We ended up installing a squid reverse-proxy on that ISP's
> datacenter, and redirecting all its users there by returning a
> different DNS response depending on the client's IP address. This
> method could be extended to use as many ISPs/proxies as needed,
> creating a homegrown, Akamai-like CDN.

Looks like a nice solution, and we might try something like that to
reach Chinese users.

Did you notice any ill effects of Bug 7
(http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7)? This bug makes
Squid deliver resources with expiration times in the past, thus causing
the clients to revalidate the resources every time they are used.

Regards,

Oliver Schoett
Received on Wed Sep 05 2007 - 01:50:39 MDT