Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase "punishment" for early adopters

2011-02-08 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
> Hint: even IPs not pingable from the Internet are being used. Not > everyone is an ISP/Webhoster ... with public services. I thought that was why we have RFC1918 ?

Re: Mitigating human error in the SP

2010-02-02 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
>>Otherwise, as Suresh notes, the only way to eliminate human error completely >>is >>to eliminate the presence of humans in the activity. and,hence by reference. >> Automated config deployment / provisioning. That's the funniest thing I've read all day... ;-) A little pessimistic rant.

RE: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-06 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
Don't think anyone has mentioned this yet, so I will All this debate over the pros and cons of firewalls brings the words "Jericho Forum" to mind.and their "principles for de-perimeterization (perimeter erosion)" http://www.opengroup.org/jericho/ Just my 2 worth !

Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity

2009-06-03 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
Some things just don't active/active nicely on a budget. > Sure, because of inefficient legacy design choices. Roland, I'm not sure I understand your argument here. Budget is very much an issue when choosing between active/active and active/passive. Nothing to do with "inefficient legacy

Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity

2009-06-03 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
(by the way before the accusations start flying of spamming , no I don't work for Zeus or have any incentive to mention their name... just happen to know their product)

Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity

2009-06-03 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
to whoever said ... >F5's if you like commercial solutions F5s if you like expensive commercial solutions . Those with a less bulging wallet may wish to speak to the guys at Zeus Technology (http://www.zeus.com/) who have a lot of experience in the area and a more reasonable price tag. C

Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity

2009-06-03 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
Tell me about it .. "failover test what failover test" ;-) - Original Message From: William Herrin To: gb10hkzo-na...@yahoo.co.uk Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Wednesday, 3 June, 2009 16:05:15 Subject: Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM, wrote: > -

Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity

2009-06-03 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
As with all things, there's no "right answer" . a lot of it depends on three things : - what you are hoping to achieve - what your budget is - what you have at your disposal in terms of numbers of qualified staff available to both implement and support the chosen solution That's the main b

RE: Facility wide DR/Continuity

2009-06-03 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
On the subject of DNS GSLB, there's a fairly well known article on the subject that anyone considering implementing it should read at least once :) http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShame.htm and part 2 http://www.tenereillo.com/GSLBPageOfShameII.htm Yes it was written in 2004. But all t

RE: In a bit of bind...

2009-06-02 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
Hi, I have not been following this thread too closely, but I spotted the last poster talking about a database backend to DNS. There are some interesting thoughts on the matter in a Nominet Blog Post here : http://blog.nominet.org.uk/tech/2008/06/02/nameservers-and-very-large-zones/

Re: MX Record Theories

2009-05-28 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:48:39 -0400, wrote: > Actually, I was thinking to myself yesterday that the email world is going to > be awfully > fun when IPv6 sets in and we're all running mail servers with nice long > records such as > fc00:836b:4917::a180:4179. > You do realize DNS queri

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2009-05-27 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
> fc00:836b:4917::a180:4179 And yes, before anyone points out, I just realised I posted an abbreviated example. :)

Re: MX Record Theories

2009-05-27 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
Mark, > A EDNS referral from the root servers to the COM servers > already exceeded 512 bytes. The world hasn't fallen over. Actually, I was thinking to myself yesterday that the email world is going to be awfully fun when IPv6 sets in and we're all running mail servers with nice long re

Re: MX Record Theories

2009-05-26 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
Hi, > I thought i'd give you a quick response (and welcome to NANOG) :). Thanks. I can't believe that I've already received three very interesting responses in just over an hour ! I've been quietly lurking on NANOG for a while, just plucked up the courage to post . and might now even fin

MX Record Theories

2009-05-26 Thread gb10hkzo-nanog
Hello all, First, I hope this is not off-topic for NANOG, please be gentle with me as this is my first post. I would be most interested to hear NANOG theories on the variety of MX record practices out there, namely, how come there seem to be so many ways employed to achieve the same goal ? Do