[121125] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: I don't need no stinking firewall!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (George Bonser)
Mon Jan 11 02:36:12 2010
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 23:35:30 -0800
In-Reply-To: <E48852BC-06BE-44DC-8FDA-D23DB6E03B36@arbor.net>
From: "George Bonser" <gbonser@seven.com>
To: "NANOG list" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
> I believe that these comments were more along the lines of 'servers
can
> better handle this that stateful firewalls', not ruling out the use of
> load-balancers, reverse-proxy caches, etc. as appropriate.
>=20
>
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> Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net> // <http://www.arbornetworks.com>
I read it as the poster linking a service to a server. That would imply
to me a small amount of traffic. The notion that a service is somehow
related to a server is valid for rates of traffic that a single server
can handle but things change once you scale beyond that level. A
service provided to the internet does not map to a server except in
small scale operation.
