Harold Jarvie wrote:

> what are the other differences specificly?

for instance when a web server you are trying to reach is overloaded, Netscape
or IE will pop up a dialog box saying 'connection refused', with any form of
proxy or cached access, you'll get the same error as a web page from the cache
engine with the heading 'Cache Error'

> How do we bypass these machines please?

you can't, but you can get around them by using a proxy server (like
proxy.xtra.co.nz) as the connections to the proxy server go via port 8080 - this
may sound strange as a work around, but it's a good way of finding out whether
the CE's have a problem with a particular site, or whther it's the site that has
a problem

> Are they also cacheing our pages and serving them to the outside?

no, they are caching all outgoing requests to web servers on port 80 (from
Xtra's network).

cheers

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Brendan Black - Network Engineer/Gravity Enforcement Officer, Telecom IP & Data
email:	ratfink@xtra.co.nz (personal)	phone: +649 3587257 mobile: +6425 2752667
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