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I am getting ready to setup the Global Dispatch at my site, I am currently
planning to use either ping or connection to port 53 for the distance
measurement, do you folks have a better suggestion ?
David Lang
On Fri, 11 Jun 1999, Pug Bainter wrote:
> Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 14:15:46 -0500
> From: Pug Bainter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Joshua Chamas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nevin Nobles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
[EMAIL PROTECTED],
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: ? Global Dispatch use of TCP port 7 for geographical latency
measurement
>
> Joshua Chamas ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something that sounded like:
> > We are currently using the product GlobalDispatch from Resonate Inc.
> > for our Wide Area
> > Data Distribution. Please see letter below for a detail explaination on
> > this product. Thanks.
>
> I have heard the same thing from DoubleClick, and their ISP, over and
> over again.
>
> This has been occuring on a growing number of ports that they seem to
> use for their determination of the "best" server to serve me. The ports
> that they claim to use to date are HTTP, DNS (tcp) and ECHO. So far
> there has been one added a month to my filter lists from this annoying
> software and service.
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> Richard "Pug" Bainter | GlobeSet, Inc.
> System & Network Admin. Manager | 1250 S. Capital of Tx Hwy, 1-300
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Austin, TX 78746
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