On Sat, Feb 1, 2003, Rob Siemborski wrote:
> On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Hank Beatty wrote: > > > I'm thinking that in my case this isn't necessarily a problem because the > > clients will not be able to reach the back end servers so all communication > > will have to be proxied. > > This is not the way the aggregator works. It is always possible (and > sometimes required, especailly for administrative operations) for a > frontend to refer a client to the backend for particular operations. This sounds like that when a connection is referred it no longer "passes thru" the front end server. Rather there is a direct connection made from the client to the back end. Is this correct? If so, I'm assuming that this would only be the case for IMAP operations and not POP. > > This is a large performace win for clients which susport referrals (and as > I said above, is necessary for some administrative operations). > > -Rob > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Rob Siemborski * Andrew Systems Group * Cyert Hall 207 * 412-268-7456 > Research Systems Programmer * /usr/contributed Gatekeeper >