Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 23:06:30 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, ben@scientia.demon.co.uk, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Filtering port 25 (was Re: On hub.freebsd.org refusing to talk to dialups) Message-ID: <199909292306.QAA07950@usr08.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199909291915.MAA20069@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Sep 29, 99 12:15:00 pm
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> > No matter how you look at it, it's technically possible to (1) get > > rid of the storage argument and (2) get rid of the modem transit > > argument. > > Technically perhaps, but we have to implement this stuff in the time > frame of yesterday. Theory is great, we have a real job to get done > today, not next year. To paraphrase you, "An i.Mail license is pennies, when you are talking about this kind of scale". For the DDNS support, may I suggest Microsft IAS does dynamic DNS update in response to RADIUS for use of dynamic IPs for things like ETRN. You just have to know where to buy; I hate recommending a Microsoft product for this, but since there's no integration on FreeBSD or other OSs at this time, it's the only game in town. > Animated gifs are not always dynamic content, they are .gif files that > don't change most of the time. > > Banner ads are fine to cache, due to the fact that when you aggregate > a large user base who all hit the same area of the internet you quickly > build up a good collection of the banner ads that area of the internet > is sending out. > > We probably have a 60 to 70% hit rate on any banner adds on Yahoo and > a few other major sites. Though the pointer in the referenceing page > causes that page to be uncacheable, the pointed to (reference) is often > quite cacheable and static, and often even an animated gif. Well, I think until people go to cascading style sheets, you are going to be not caching a lot of information, unless you violate the HTTP spec. and cache in contravention of the cache control headers. 8-(. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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