On Tuesday, February 13, 2001, 2:07:47 AM, Thomas wrote:
ML>> However, some ISP employ transparent caching, and there's
ML>> nothing we can do about it (shorting of switching ISP).
> So you are saying Chungwa Telecom might have cached the Ritlabs pages
> in English and in German?
It might, though I know nothing specific about Chunghwa Telecom's
practice. Considering the facts that
1. the main bottleneck for Taiwan's Internet traffic lies in its
international line;
2. the incoming traffic usually dominate the bandwidth; and
3. Few users are willing to set up caching in their own browsers;
I wouldn't be surprised if there's a huge transparent cache server
right behind the main router(s) sitting at the border.
> and even in Russian (which I personally accessed for the first
> time today, just to test it)? Hmm. But seems to be the most likely
> explanation.
I don't think they distinguish the source when they do caching. It's
easier they just cache everything, and let data expires on a FIFO
basis.
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Best regards,
Ming-Li
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