Vicente Aguilar wrote:
Long story short: all the users of a particular ISP had problems accessing our pages because of a routing problem between that ISP and ours. We ended up installing a squid reverse-proxy on that ISP's datacenter, and redirecting all its users there by returning a different DNS response depending on the client's IP address. This method could be extended to use as many ISPs/proxies as needed, creating a homegrown, Akamai-like CDN.
Looks like a nice solution, and we might try something like that to reach Chinese users.
Did you notice any ill effects of Bug 7 (http://www.squid-cache.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=7)? This bug makes Squid deliver resources with expiration times in the past, thus causing the clients to revalidate the resources every time they are used.
Regards, Oliver Schoett
