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