On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:02 PM, Bryan Davis <bd808(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 4:03 PM, Brian Wolff
<bawolff(a)gmail.com> wrote:
If we wanted to address such a situation, it sounds like it would be
less complex to just setup a varnish box (With access to the HTCP
cache clear packets), on that campus.
This is an idea I've casually thought about but never put any real
work towards. It would be pretty neat to have something similar to the
Netflix Open Connect appliance [0] available for Wikimedia projects.
This has a very strong "back to the future" ring to it. We started our
caching layers back in 2004 with an eye towards bandwidth / housing
donations from universities and ISPs [1], and indeed benefited from
such donations in Amsterdam (Kennisnet), Paris and Seoul (Yahoo). Of
these, only the Amsterdam PoP has survived, and is now in our own
management.
Gabriel
[1]:
http://web.archive.org/web/20040710213535/http://www.aulinx.de/oss/code/wik…