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Reader Comments on Aardvark Daily 27 March 2003
Note: the comments below are the unabridged submissions of readers and do
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From: Peter Jenkins
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Proxy Servers....

The other fact that annoys me about proxy servers is that
you are still being charged for International traffic by
the MB, whereas in actual fact the traffic is LOCAL to the
ISPs proxy server!

This has caused us a problem at work with a few websites
which provide a subscription service, based on IP address.
It seems like local traffic is direct and international is
piped through this proxy, which I was unaware of until we
signed up to this service and the provided a diagnostic
page, which showed our IP address different to that which
we were using!  I immediately thought it was a proxy
server, and sure enough upon doing a NSLOOKUP showed we
were going out a a proxy.

Fortunately our ISP was able to take us off the proxy for
that site so we could use it again.




From: Allister Jenks
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Who is to blame?

The thief who stole the car may be the one who gets
prosecuted, but tell your insurance company you left the
keys in the car and see what happens.




From: Richard
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: Net4u

What I find funny is that, according to the Net4U
news/status page, they've contracted an independent third
party to audit their network and say whether or not all is
above board.  This "independent third party", though, is one
of Net4U's customers (as can be seen by looking them up at
whitepages.co.nz, finding their web site's IP address, and
finding out who that address is allocated to).  I sense
someone struggling in quicksand...




From: Philip S
For : The Editor (for publication)
Subj: ISP Cache is evil to web designers

When occasionally I need to change a web site so that it is
hosted with another company it requires me to change the
nameservers.
Problem is that when I do this, domainz updates at 7pm and
10am I think, but Clear Net (this can be blanked if needed)
seems to update their cache really weirdly or slowly or
something.
The last time I changed a web host which was for
www.plutonicart.com I had to wait more than 24 hours for
the cache to update so that I could upload my files etc!
Meanwhile I asked other people who saw the new host fine
(and was greeted with a lovely 'Page coming soon' page),
friends on Orcon could see the new host immediatly and it
will definatly effect my decision if I change hosts.
Cache is a good idea, but for a few people we need to be
able to request it to be updated for some sites.
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