RE: Facebook Issues/Outage in Southeast?

2010-09-24 Thread gordon b slater
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 12:47 -0700, Justin Horstman wrote: Productivity grinds to a halt as everyone goes onto twitter to talk about facebook being down I'm hoping (desperately) that someone other than me sees the full irony in this statement? I also have visions of hundreds of techs

Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-24 Thread Venkatesh Sriram
Hi, Can somebody educate me on (or pass some pointers) what differentiates a router operating and optimized for data centers versus, say a router work in the metro ethernet space? What is it thats required for routers operating in data centers? High throughput, what else? Thanks, Venkatesh

Re: Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:52:22 +0530, Venkatesh Sriram said: Can somebody educate me on (or pass some pointers) what differentiates a router operating and optimized for data centers versus, say a router work in the metro ethernet space? What is it thats required for routers operating in data

Re: Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-24 Thread James P. Ashton
The biggest difference that I see is that you generally use different resources in a Datacenter. (Colo Datacenter). For example, I run out of HSRP groups on a 6500 long before I run out of ports or capacity. I don't need to worry about QoS much but a less complex rate limit command (As

Re: Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sep 24, 2010, at 6:22 AM, Venkatesh Sriram wrote: Hi, Can somebody educate me on (or pass some pointers) what differentiates a router operating and optimized for data centers versus, say a router work in the metro ethernet space? What is it thats required for routers operating in data

Re: Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-24 Thread Warren Kumari
On Sep 24, 2010, at 6:22 AM, Venkatesh Sriram wrote: Hi, Can somebody educate me on (or pass some pointers) what differentiates a router operating and optimized for data centers versus, say a router work in the metro ethernet space? What is it thats required for routers operating in data

Facebook Issues/Outage ... what about Yahoo! Answers

2010-09-24 Thread Matthew Black
I didn't have trouble with Facebook, but the last two evenings Yahoo! Answers [http://answers.yahoo.com] seems 99.47% unresponsive. Verizon DSL customer. matthew black e-mail postmaster california state university, long beach

Re: Routers in Data Centers

2010-09-24 Thread bmanning
the power/cooling budget for a rack full of router vs a rack full of cores might be distinction to make. I know that historically, the data center operator made no distinction and a client decided to push past the envelope and replaced their kit with space heaters. most data centers now are

Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS?

2010-09-24 Thread Phil Regnauld
Darren Pilgrim (nanog) writes: Tom Mikelson wrote: Presently our organization utilizes BIND for DNS services, with the Networking team administering. We are now being told by the Systems team that they will be responsible for DNS services and that it will be changed over to the Microsoft DNS

Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS?

2010-09-24 Thread Daniel
AD works just fine with BIND as long as dynamic updates are allowed to the AD zone's from the DC's. Exchange 2007 by default also wants to be able to dynamically register it's record's but it can be disabled. All you need to do is configure the DNS server's in the IP settings and restart the net

Re: Active Directory requires Microsoft DNS?

2010-09-24 Thread Darren Pilgrim
Phil Regnauld wrote: Darren Pilgrim (nanog) writes: Tom Mikelson wrote: Presently our organization utilizes BIND for DNS services, with the Networking team administering. We are now being told by the Systems team that they will be responsible for DNS services and that it will be changed over

Re: OpenFlow

2010-09-24 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 9/24/10 3:10 PM, nanogf . wrote: Guillaume FORTAINE Tel : +33(0)631092519 Mail : gforta...@gfortaine.biz GO AWAY FORTAINE! Geeze, do some people never take the hint? -- Brielle Bruns The Summit Open Source Development Group http://www.sosdg.org/ http://www.ahbl.org

Re: OpenFlow

2010-09-24 Thread tammy-lists
We all would love too but dumba$$ keeps getting new domains email addresses. I think he ate lead paint as a kid or something. He is absolutly 190% insane Mods:: please show gilliam the door :) Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Jeroen Massar

Re: Facebook Engineering on today's outage

2010-09-24 Thread vijay gill
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 7:17 PM, Jay R. Ashworth j...@baylink.com wrote: http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/more-details-on-todays-outage/431441338919 Apparently, our surmise about Akamai notwithstanding, the problem was actually internal to their app-specific caching