well, you could also opt to put a tiny tiny bit more effort in your UIXP link (and actually push for the purchase of that new inverter, for example?)
Besides that, the UIXP is by *far* more stable than the SEACOM link that most people are routing their google traffic over now. Dont downplay the powers people have. Over the UIXP all ISP have control, over SEACOM & TEAMS, they dont. If you dont like the UIXP uptime (and there is very little reason to do that, but still), just improve it. Any ISP can do that. (and of course this is a total hack, but hacking is fun. and this hack might even make clients happy. Or just members of this list that implement this themselves.) #ronny, how do you get a copy of the google (and youtube, much more important!) zonefiles? Can you post them? That would rock. -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. +256 758 801 749 www.mountbatten.net On Monday 26 July 2010 13:36:34 Mark Tinka wrote: > On Monday, July 26, 2010 06:19:38 pm Muwonge Ronald wrote: > > It has "side effects". > > You need to get a copy of google zonefile and just edit > > the A record for bot google.com and www record that's > > all you need in the ISP DNS and bang all http traffc > > will pass via MTN-GOOGLE > > Secondly your IXP link must be good enough otherwise you > > will have issues and watchout for mails to Gmail will > > bounce if unplanned. > > And what happens when the exchange point (or your ISP's link > to it) is down and all your customer's traffic to > www.google.com is getting blackholed? > > Yes, you could go in and fix it via DNS, but what happens to > records your customers have already cached? And even though > you're aggressive in the record's TTL, it means you always > need to have someone on standby for the possibility of link > failure to or across the exchange fabric. > > Risky, if I say so myself. But as my American friend would > say, "I encourage my competitors to do this". > > Cheers, > > Mark. _______________________________________________ LUG mailing list [email protected] http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ All Archives can be found at http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in any way. ---------------------------------------
