RE: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-05 Thread Joseph Jackson
Title: RE: DNS Based Load Balancers What would be a better solution then? -Original Message- From: Lincoln Dale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tue Jul 04 18:30:00 2006 To: 'Rodrick Brown'; 'Sam Stickland' Cc: 'Matt Ghali'; 'Patrick W. Gilmore'; nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: DNS

RE: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-05 Thread Lincoln Dale
but it's a perfect example of why GSLB based on DNS ain't perfect. What would be a better solution then? utopia would be for DNS to be enhanced in some manner such that the 'end user ip-address' became visible in the DNS request. utopia would have NAT devices which actually updated that

RE: DNS Based Load Balancers (redux)

2006-07-05 Thread ennova2005-nanog
Stepping back for a moment...Many (most) popular services end up in multiple data centers first because they want to get diversity (of data centers, of ISPs, maybe of pricing). All mission critical sites will be designed such a subset of these data centers can take their entire load if need

Re: IP Delegations for Forum Spammers and Invalid Whois info

2006-07-05 Thread Simon Waters
On Monday 03 Jul 2006 16:26, Phil Rosenthal wrote: We are very much anti-spam and I will look into Mark's issue - I'm looking through the tickets for abuse@ and there is no email sent in from [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I suspect he tried [EMAIL PROTECTED] which seems to be in rfc-ignorant.

Re: IP failover/migration question.

2006-07-05 Thread Michael . Dillon
It's actually a rather frustrating situation for people who aren't big enough to justify a /19 and an AS#, but require geographically dispersed locations answering on the same IP(s). If the number of IPs you require is small, then you can probably solve the problem with IPv4 anycasting.

Re: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-05 Thread John Payne
On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Lincoln Dale wrote: but it's a perfect example of why GSLB based on DNS ain't perfect. What would be a better solution then? utopia would be for DNS to be enhanced in some manner such that the 'end user ip-address' became visible in the DNS request. utopia

RE: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-05 Thread Brandon Butterworth
GSLB based on DNS have one significant shortcoming that moone here has yet mentioned: they are performing their magic on the location of the _nameserver_ that issued the query. this can be VERY different to that of the ACTUAL location of the client. Systems that infer stuff make errors, at

Re: Fanless x86 Server Recommendations

2006-07-05 Thread Michael . Dillon
We're looking to acquire a couple small servers that can act as routers for us at remote locations. You may want to check out soekris. (www.soekris.com) This type of server is far more common nowadays than it was when Soekris launched their business. A Google search will lead you to

Re: Fanless x86 Server Recommendations

2006-07-05 Thread Michael . Dillon
...but the fanless chips are not always as fanless as you might like. I've seen a number of them come back well fried. Fanless doesn't just mean no fans to break down. It also means well-ventilated installation required. Maybe you can find a datacenter with so many hot bladeservers that

RE: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-05 Thread David Schwartz
John Payne wrote: On Jul 5, 2006, at 5:18 AM, Lincoln Dale wrote: utopia would be for DNS to be enhanced in some manner such that the 'end user ip-address' became visible in the DNS request. utopia would have NAT devices which actually updated that in-place so an authoritive

NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread Joe Johnson
Am I the only one to get this email? Headers say merit.edu sent it. I have NANOG whitelisted, though, so it came to my mailbox. HEADERS: Microsoft Mail Internet Headers Version 2.0 Received: from mx1.exchange.riversidecg.com ([10.10.1.20]) by be01.windows.riversidecg.com with Microsoft

Re: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Vixie
As someone who has also deployed GSLB's with hardware applicances I would also like to know real world problems and issues people are running into today on modern GSLB implementations and not theoretical ones, as far as I can tell our GSLB deployment was very straight forward and works

Re: DNS Based Load Balancers

2006-07-05 Thread Paul Vixie
What would be a better solution then? multiple A RR's for your web service, each leading to an independent web server (which might be leased capacity rather than your own hardware), each having excellent (high bandwidth, low latency, etc) connectivity to a significant part of the internet. the

re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread Etaoin Shrdlu
Joe Johnson wrote: Am I the only one to get this email? Headers say merit.edu sent it. I have NANOG whitelisted, though, so it came to my mailbox. You do realize that by including the whole email, that anyone who had it blocked, will not have seen your message either. I have multiple spam

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread Gregory Hicks
Subject: NANOG Spam? Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:56:19 -0500 From: Joe Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu Am I the only one to get this email? Headers say merit.edu sent it. I have NANOG whitelisted, though, so it came to my mailbox. [...snip spam...] No, I got it as well

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread Allen Parker
On 7/5/06, Gregory Hicks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Subject: NANOG Spam? Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:56:19 -0500 From: Joe Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: nanog@merit.edu snip Just my .02, emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HA! like i'll get a response!) and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not expecting a

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
Gregory Hicks wrote: Just a joe-job though. The headers are forged. See the IP address in thi FIRST Received-by: header. Came from Spain. [...snip later headers...] Received: from trapdoor.merit.edu (unknown [84.232.124.32]) by trapdoor.merit.edu (Postfix) with SMTP id AD0CF91265

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread Jim Popovitch
William Allen Simpson wrote: The spammers have figured out how to bypass the NANOG members-only posting, in this case by pretending to be John Fraizer and sending directly to trapdoor. On our public list servers we now require admin approval of all new subscriptions as well as email

Re: NANOG Spam?

2006-07-05 Thread William Allen Simpson
Allen Parker wrote: Just my .02, emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (HA! like i'll get a response!) and [EMAIL PROTECTED] (not expecting a response from this one either) have been sent. Anybody else feel like telling these folks that they've got spammers on their networks? I sent to [EMAIL