Re: [RAM] The mapping problem: rendezvous points?

Dino Farinacci <dino@cisco.com> Tue, 08 May 2007 20:53 UTC

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Subject: Re: [RAM] The mapping problem: rendezvous points?
Date: Tue, 08 May 2007 13:53:36 -0700
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> Unfortunately, that's simply not true.  Pull does scale.  See DNS.   
> Perhaps a more accurate saying would be:
>
> 	"Push doesn't scale, pull is slow, pick one."
>
> As always, it's a time/space tradeoff.

Pulling implies caching. And some have said (not me) that caching  
doesn't scale.

Dino

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