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some number of years ago, netscape store was the largest ftp site ... they were having to do round-robin dns and router load-balancing across multiple large servers ... and then starting to offer special reserved servers for people who paid more. At some point they replaced them all with a single large sequent server that had been clocked at 20,000 connections (it thing it became something like ftp20.netscape.com).

The other problem that was epidemic at that time was dangling finwait chains caused by http protocol. tcp connections had never before been invisioned to have huge numbers of short-lived connections, each one generating a dangling finwait. there was a period when some large (web-http) servers were loosing 95 percent of their cpu to processing the dnaling finwait chain. sequent had rewritten their dangling finwait processing before because of 20,000 relatively long lived connections would produce a fair sized dangling finwait list ... and so was also applicable to handling huge numbers of short-lived connections.

trivia question ... when it came time to change the name from mosaic to netscape ... from who did they get the name "netscape"?

a couple past postings mentioning mosaic, netscape, payments, ssl, and electronic commerce:

some past postings mentioning finwait

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