On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 05:09:59PM +0200, Jochen Topf wrote: > On So, Mai 17, 2015 at 04:46:24 +0200, Maarten Deen wrote: > > Is it normal that the a, b and c.tile.openstreetmap.org IP-adresses refer to > > the same server? For me, they all refer to amsterdam.tile.openstreetmap.org > > and for some reason it is not responding very well (lots of read times out > > messages in JOSM). > > To me it would seem more logical to have different tileserveraliases refer > > to different physical servers. > > Thats normal. The a/b/c stuff is a workaround for a "feature" in browsers that > only allow a limited number of connections to the same host at the same time. > (Modern browsers probably don't have this limitation any more, sombody should > probably check whether we need the a/b/c stuff any more.) It is not ment to > be some kind of load-balancing.
probably doing more harm than good by preventing caching. In Firefox the number of connections is settable and imho high enough: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Network.http.max-connections-per-server Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
