Re: Access to NLANR parent caches == slower ???

#define quoting(Jeff Halper)
// Strange -
//
// I alsom use sv and sd - my first parent is sv. I have not noticed any
// slowness and I haven't noticed inaccessible sites either. I wonder why it
// is working better for me than the other two people in this thread?

Maybe because you are in USA ? :)

Our bottleneck is the internacional link between USA and Brazil.
So, I think, ICP response is in fact slower than direct access.

Of course, this does not explain why some sites are inaccessible
from nlanr caches, but are accessible from here.

// > On Wed, 25 Jun 1997, Joao Carlos Mendes Luis wrote:
// > > I've recently got access to the NLANR parent caches, specifically those
// > > at sd and sv. Strangely enough, my access times got extremely bad. Also,
// > > some sites became unaccessible.
// > >
// > > Is it possible that this is a side effect of my international access
// > > being overloaded and ICP is getting lost easily ?

                                        Jonny

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