Good morning!
You make an excellent point and do not sound negative to me at all.
This is a 100% valid concern that we do need to consider as we develop
our web front end. Even though our product is only used in vehicles
(cars, trucks, ships, etc), the discussion is still important on
The original impetus for this effort was two fold.
1. updated user experience since we are rolling out a much more capable site to
replace a very simple one.
2. shifting our design methodology to MVC (Model-View-Controller)
our programmers have all of the back end coding under control and we
not at all! this is exactly why I continue to subscribe and read the PLUG list
after all these years.
I have more of a sysadmin and networking background; coding is definitely
outside my professional
skill set but I learn a tremendous amount through the list and get exposed
constantly to new
so it is a
real work space. It is worth the visit.
Hope that helps!
Ed Knapp
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 13:08:28 -0700
From: klsmith2...@yahoo.com
Subject: Gangplank
To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Lisa mentioned Gangplank in her email, which got me to thinking. I read about
Gangplank
One thing struck me here with your description...
³and a change to the DNS and we are off and running²
While your DNS records might be changed relatively quickly during an
incident, the change
Itself can take quite a while to trickle down to the end users/clients out
in the cloud.
Any client¹s
Similar idea... It sounds like the change in the NIC hardware caused a loss
of connectivity because of
The Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) information in the local
router/switch¹s cache.
DNS relates a name record to an IP address and ARP associates the IP address
with the
Physical hardware
Absolutely. In practice, this is not that big of an issue but I was more
commenting on this
As a potential situation. I was serious about having someone standing over
the shoulder anxiously
Awaiting the service to come back up. That scenario was my first thought
and it sucks when it happens
and
