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leaf site
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n. [obs.] Before pervasive TCP/IP, this term was used of a machine that
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merely originated and read Usenet news or mail, and did not relay any
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third-party traffic. It was often uttered in a critical tone; when the ratio
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of leaf sites to backbone, rib, and other relay sites got too high, the
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network tended to develop bottlenecks. Compare backbone site. Now that
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traffic patterns depend more on the distribution of routers than of host
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machines this term has largely fallen out of use.
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