Can't you provide a static public IP for it? We run stuff at Amazon but the IPs
don't change.
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-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of James M. Pulver
Sent: Friday, January 22, 2016 3:42 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] HughesNet and AWS
Use a VPN maybe? Would that actually be able to hold a connection over the
satallite latencies?
James Pulver
CLASSE Computer Group
Cornell University
On 01/22/2016 03:21 PM, Charles F Sullivan wrote:
> DNS Acceleration = Ignore TTL
>
> Brilliant concept!
>
> *From:*[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> [mailto:[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Damien Solodow
> *Sent:* Friday, January 22, 2016 1:44 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Subject:* RE: [NTSysADM] HughesNet and AWS
>
> Yeah, I’d thought (and hoped) it was their DNS server doing it, but
> when even ‘nslookup saasapp.com <http://saasapp.com> 8.8.8.8’ came
> back wrong (and different from the results on my PC) I knew something
> was rotten. J
>
> DAMIEN SOLODOW
>
> Senior Systems Engineer
>
> 317.447.6033 (office)
>
> 317.447.6014 (fax)
>
> HARRISON COLLEGE
>
> *From:*[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Richard Stovall
> *Sent:* Friday, January 22, 2016 1:40 PM
> *To:* [email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] HughesNet and AWS
>
> That's friggin awesome, but it doesn't hurt. :-)
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 1:33 PM, Michael B. Smith
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>
> Both Comcast and CenturyLink have similar “features” if you use
> their DNS servers. But they don’t override you if you choose another
> DNS server…
>
> *From:*[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>
> [mailto:[email protected]
> <mailto:[email protected]>] *On Behalf Of *Richard Stovall
> *Sent:* Friday, January 22, 2016 12:48 PM
> *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
> *Subject:* Re: [NTSysADM] HughesNet and AWS
>
> That is so friggin' awesome it hurts.
>
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 12:19 PM, Damien Solodow
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>>
> wrote:
>
> Having a fun issue, and figured I’d see if anyone else has run into
> something like it and has a solution. J
>
> One of our SaaS apps is hosted on AWS, and AWS has the lovely habit
> of using very short DNS TTLs and changing IPs frequently. Normally
> not that big a deal.
>
> However, it looks like a satellite provider used by a number of our
> users (HughesNet) has a wonderful little “feature” called DNS
> Acceleration.
>
> This looks to be a local DNS caching server (which ignores the
> provided TTL) that runs on their modem. This means that the user
> almost always gets outdated information from DNS for this SaaS app,
> which prevents them from accessing it.
>
> There doesn’t appear to be a way in the modem UI to turn off this
> “feature”, and it looks to intercept **all** outbound DNS traffic,
> so even if I set the client or their router to use a different DNS
> server it still gets intercepted.
>
> Anyone run into this or have a useful contact at HughesNet to sort
> this out?
>
> DAMIEN SOLODOW
>
> Senior Systems Engineer
>
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>
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