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RE: WCCP talk..
From: "Christian Kuhtz" <ck () adsu bellsouth com>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 19:46:43 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If it isn't actually alive anymore, it won't be able to serve requests, and by the same token won't be able to maintain its matrix of producers and consumers. Once that state is reached, the system goes into a "fail-safe" mode. Sure, fail-safe mechanisms can fail. But being overly creative about the software bug doesn't help either. - -- Christian Kuhtz <ck () adsu bellsouth com> -wk ck () gnu org -hm Sr. Network Architect, BellSouth Corp., Advanced Data Services NOTE: "We speak PGP: key available at well-known key servers." "Turnaucka's Law: The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord." -- /usr/games/fortune
-----Original Message----- From: alex () nac net [mailto:alex () nac net] Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 11:16 PM To: lincoln dale Cc: nanog () merit edu; Christian Kuhtz Subject: Re: WCCP talk.. On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, lincoln dale wrote:Your missing what I said. What if the cache continues sending
WCCP
packets, but the cache itself has died?i don't think i am -- i would assume that the cache design would perform suitablesanity checksprior to sending out a heartbeat. if the design is sound, thecache wouldnot be capable of sending out WCCP packets if it has 'died' in
some way.
You can't be serious. A cache may check itself, but my arguement is that this
self-checking
scheme may fail, seeing itself as alive, but not able to actually
serve
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Current thread:
- Re: WCCP talk.., (continued)
- Re: WCCP talk.. lincoln dale (Nov 09)
- Re: WCCP talk.. alex (Nov 10)
- Re: WCCP talk.. Craig A. Huegen (Nov 10)
- Re: WCCP talk.. alex (Nov 10)
- Re: WCCP talk.. Jesper Skriver (Nov 11)
- RE: WCCP talk.. Christian Kuhtz (Nov 12)
- Re: WCCP talk.. alex (Nov 10)
- Re: WCCP talk.. lincoln dale (Nov 09)
- Re: WCCP talk.. lincoln dale (Nov 10)
- Re: WCCP talk.. alex (Nov 10)
- Re: WCCP talk.. lincoln dale (Nov 10)
- RE: WCCP talk.. Christian Kuhtz (Nov 12)
- RE: WCCP talk.. Christian Kuhtz (Nov 12)
- Re: WCCP talk.. Deepak Jain (Nov 11)
- RE: WCCP talk.. Christian Kuhtz (Nov 12)