On Sun, 20 May 2001, Eileen Tan wrote:
> I figured message delivery doesn't obey any rational law whatsoever.
> I'm 3 hops away from the listproc box, not only do I get this
> weirdness, but egroups receives messages much earlier than I do...
It's not just the number of hops, it's how big a pipe there is between
hops, I think.
We got DSL once Autodesk figured out its VPN solution, so Dan could just
do VPN over the DSL instead of having a dedicated ISDN line calling
long-distance from Texas to California a good number of hours per weekday
(and some on the weekends), and with better bandwidth to boot.
At some point, the number of hops went down by about 20-30%, and Dan
noticed improved network performance.
But then some change was made in the Autodesk system, and the number of
hops went up again -- but somewhere between the server he needed to access
most often and our ISP, there was a performance upgrade (no idea where),
and the speed once again went up, even with more hops.
I think that if you looked at everything in the network, it would make
sense that egroups is getting stuff before you do, but you'd probably go
nuts trying to figure it out. :)
Julia
worked for an ISP once, but doesn't understand routing all that well or
anything
