Since you are trying to get it to work correctly with an addressing scheme which only very weakly encodes topological information, the lossy DV approach to propagating routing information (as opposed to a map-exchanging scheme),
DV = Direction Vector, i.e. paths like in BGP For more info on maps check out the big-internet archives for April ftp://munnari.oz.au/big-internet/list-archive/1997-04-Apr
Note that since this seems to be possible through feature accretion upon the current practice of aggressive interception of WWW queries,
This is essentially what a Squid http proxy cache does. And now companies like mirror-image and Cisco are coming out with transparent proxy caches that intercept port 80 traffic so this technology is likely to become more widespread even in North America. If only those vendors would make their software compatible with Squid's parent/sibling protocols for sharing cache contents then it would be even easier to offload a significant amount of web traffic onto caching proxies. ******************************************************** Michael Dillon voice: +1-650-482-2840 Senior Systems Architect fax: +1-650-482-2844 PRIORI NETWORKS, INC. http://www.priori.net "The People You Know. The People You Trust." ********************************************************