Re: NAT Multihoming

2007-06-03 Thread Simon Leinen
Donald Stahl writes: > When an ISP's caching name servers ignore your 3600 TTL and > substitute an 86400 TTL you end up disconnected for ~12 hours > instead of ~30 minutes- You write "when" rather than "if" - is ignoring reasonable TTLs current practice? (Ignoring routing updates for small route

NAT Multihoming (was:Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

2007-06-03 Thread Lamar Owen
On Friday 01 June 2007, Vince Fuller wrote: > If you think about it, the NAT approach actually offers the possibility of > improved routing scalability: site multihomed with NATs connected to each > of its providers could use topologically-significant (read "PA") global > addresses on the NATs whi

Re: NAT Multihoming (was:Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

2007-06-02 Thread Donald Stahl
There are indeed a few thorny issues with this approach; the largest issue is that all connectivity becomes DNS-dependent and raw IP addresses (from both the inside and outside) become virtually useless. Running servers behind this scheme, while doable, is difficult. When an ISP's caching name