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(...) Can you tell it was a US holiday? ;-) Jude (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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(...) It isn't just you. I notice the delay as well on every machine I use - fast or slow, on every connection I use, fast or slow. Last time I looked into this (and I think posted about it) it seemed fairly obvious the biggest delays were had by IE (...) (26 years ago, 24-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) Did I just say that? Oops. That's wrong. There isn't any jump.cgi in the context of NNTP -- only HTTP. Duh. So it's never more than 1 DNS lookup in the case of NNTP and never more then 2 DNS lookups in the case of HTTP -- and in practice, it (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) If you're reading via HTTP, then it's only one resolution because your client will already have resolved www.lugnet.com. If you're reading via NNTP, then it may be two and it may be one depending on your DNS cache. (...) With a typical URL, (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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| | Re: "jump.cgi" considered harmful ? (1)
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(...) Well I suppose the nub of this is, if we accept LP's assertion that it is slowing things down, is the cost of doing this worth the benefit. Is the data being collected because it can be collected, or because it needs to be collected? Scott A (...) (26 years ago, 23-Nov-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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