[Cerowrt-devel] [Cake] [Starlink] [Bloat] Little's Law mea culpa, but not invalidating my main point

[John Sager]

You guys made the Internet too easy to use :-)


On 20 September 2021 13:57:33 BST, Steve Crocker <steve at shinkuro.com> wrote:
>Related but slightly different: Attached is a slide some of my colleagues
>put together a decade ago showing the number of DNS lookups involved in
>displaying CNN's front page.
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>Steve
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>On Mon, Sep 20, 2021 at 8:18 AM Valdis Klētnieks <valdis.kletnieks at vt.edu>
>wrote:
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>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2021 18:21:56 -0700, Dave Taht said:
>> > what actually happens during a web page load,
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>> I'm pretty sure that nobody actually understands that anymore, in any
>> more than handwaving levels.
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>> I have a nice Chrome extension called IPvFoo that actually tracks the IP
>> addresses contacted during the load of the displayed page. I'll let you
>> make
>> a guess as to how many unique IP addresses were contacted during a load
>> of https://www.cnn.com
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>> 145, at least half of which appeared to be analytics.  And that's only the
>> hosts that were contacted by my laptop for HTTP, and doesn't count DNS, or
>> load-balancing front ends, or all the back-end boxes.  As I commented over
>> on
>> NANOG, we've gotten to a point similar to that of AT&T long distance,
>> where 60%
>> of the effort of connecting a long distance phone call was the cost of
>> accounting and billing for the call.
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