Eli Marmor wrote: > The solution of some ISP's was "simple": They route all your traffic > through transparent caching proxies.
Is this a real problem or just FUD. When I was at Hebrew U (CS institute) (96-98) and since I have been here, we have always run web proxies. AFIK Netvision has run one on ALL connections for at least 3 years. IBM (now AT&T global) the other ISP I have used in Israel offered a proxy, but AFIK does not have a transparent one. Using it only made things better, it never caused any complaints. I haven't been kind to users, at HUJI and here we just run using the "No proxy, no web" policy. Never had a complaint of stale pages except for the Jerusalem post, and it was a problem (long since corrected) with them copying pictures OVER old files and not updating the timestamp THEIR server presented to the proxy. When I first started here I was told of a long standing complaint where you could not order from Amazon.com, but that was fixed when I removed a rotten cuttlefish from our firewall and replaced it with a native american. I for one am glad there are transparent proxies. I plan to install one on my lan at home. :-) Instead of trying to locate the transparent proxies, I sugggest that your time would be better spent investigating actual complaints. Not only would it help fix problems, but I think you will spend a lot less time doing so. Geoff. -- Geoffrey S. Mendelson Bloomberg L.P., BFM (Israel) 2 hours ahead of London, 7 hours ahead of New York. Tel: 972-(0)3-754-1158 Fax 972-(0)3-754-1236 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
