November 22, 2004
coral and sheep
A week ago I tweeked Electric Sheep
to use the Coral Content
Distribution Network. Sheep clients are now pointed at Coral's network
of about 100 servers. These servers are in machine rooms all over the world.
They fetch the sheep mpg files from ethereal.net, our original server, and then share them among
themselves with a P2P network. Coral makes clever use of DNS to connect clients to
nearby servers. Despite some glitches users report much improved
download speeds. And the graph shows how the bandwidth used by
ethereal dropped off from 15mbps where it was capped, to about 3.
There is a downside too: coral uses port 8090 which means Electric
Sheep no longer runs in many firewalled corporate networks. Thanks
to Mike and Tristan!
Posted by spot at November 22, 2004 02:25 PM
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