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The resonate Global dispatch attempts to guess how good internet
conditions are to the requesting machine by making a connection to the DNS
server making the request (on the theory that the client is probably close
to the DNS server) It is also fully configurable to attempt the connection
on any port the user wants to try (or a regular ping) and the problem is
that as more DNS servers are filtered off, the people doing the
configuration keep trying to come up with a way that will be somewhat
reliable to get a response time from (the response needed is just an
acknoledgement back)
David Lang
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Pug Bainter wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:15:46 -0500
> From: Pug Bainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Joshua Chamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nevin Nobles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: ? Global Dispatch use of TCP port 7 for geographical latency
measurement
>
> Joshua Chamas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like:
> > We are currently using the product GlobalDispatch from Resonate Inc.
> > for our Wide Area
> > Data Distribution. Please see letter below for a detail explaination on
> > this product. Thanks.
>
> I have heard the same thing from DoubleClick, and their ISP, over and
> over again.
>
> This has been occuring on a growing number of ports that they seem to
> use for their determination of the "best" server to serve me. The ports
> that they claim to use to date are HTTP, DNS (tcp) and ECHO. So far
> there has been one added a month to my filter lists from this annoying
> software and service.
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> Richard "Pug" Bainter | GlobeSet, Inc.
> System & Network Admin. Manager | 1250 S. Capital of Tx Hwy, 1-300
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Austin, TX 78746
> Note: The views may not reflect my employers, or even my own for that matter.
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make computers run, and not to make them happy, they can, in fact, be made
happy most of the time. If users are allowed to believe that the system
administrator's job is to make them happy, they can, in fact, never be made
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- -Paul Evans (as quoted by Barb Dijker in "Managing Support Staff", LISA '97)
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