[115028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk)
Wed Jun 3 11:13:24 2009
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 08:13:12 -0700 (PDT)
From: gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk
To: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirtside.com>
In-Reply-To: <3c3e3fca0906030805h1a7e5c94w205aa7a3f19cac20@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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Tell me about it ...... "failover test.... what failover test" ;-)=0A=0A=
=0A=0A----- Original Message ----=0AFrom: William Herrin <herrin-nanog@dirt=
side.com>=0ATo: gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk=0ACc: nanog@nanog.org=0ASent: We=
dnesday, 3 June, 2009 16:05:15=0ASubject: Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity=
=0A=0AOn Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:53 AM, <gb10hkzo-nanog@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:=
=0A> - whether you are after an active/active or active/passive solution=0A=
=0AIn practice, active/passive DR solutions often fail. You rarely need=0At=
o fail over to the passive system. When you finally do need to fail=0Aover,=
there are a dozen configuration changes that didn't make it from=0Athe act=
ive system, so the passive system isn't in a runable state.=0A=0ARegards,=
=0ABill Herrin=0A=0A=0A=0A-- =0AWilliam D. Herrin ................ herrin@d=
irtside.com bill@herrin.us=0A3005 Crane Dr. ...................... Web: <h=
ttp://bill.herrin.us/>=0AFalls Church, VA 22042-3004=0A=0A=0A=0A