[115042] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Facility wide DR/Continuity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Wed Jun 3 14:25:58 2009
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2009 11:25:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
To: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <447C3E29-9922-4F2D-BA53-B8428933F44A@arbor.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 4 Jun 2009, Roland Dobbins wrote:
> With all due respect, both of these posited choices are quite ugly and
> tend to lead to huge operational difficulties, susceptibility to DDoS,
> etc. Definitely not recommended except as a last resort in a difficult
> situation, IMHO.
I wouldn't go quite so far as to say that they have security implications,
but I definitely agree that these are solutions of last resort, and that
any live load-balanced solution is infinitely preferable to a stand-by
solution. Which, IMHO, is unlikely to ever work as hoped for. I was just
answering the question at hand, rather than the meta-question of whether
the question being asked was the right question. :-)
-Bill
