[129498] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: NOC Automation / Best Practices
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan Eisenberg)
Wed Sep 8 13:59:45 2010
From: Nathan Eisenberg <nathan@atlasnetworks.us>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:59:23 +0000
In-Reply-To: <6A4EBE06CF13034585C3F773EAF836A33B897E0A@exsrv01.hotzecom.local>
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> For either A, B or C you won't get my business, let alone a combination o=
f all 3.
> *wah!* There is too much FORCE here. :-)
>=20
Agreed. Just provide tubes and shut down infected customers until they cle=
an up. Keep it simple. For content delivery, there are several non-evil w=
ays of doing localization that don't involve caching the internet to hell a=
nd back - they'll work a LOT better and they place support in the content d=
istributors court . At the very least, peering with them at the local IX sh=
ould help a lot.
If you're going to try to control mail, do it explicitly. Block 25 and pro=
vide a ratelimited, scoped relay server that people have to manually use if=
they NEED to use 25 - again, they should be using MSA instead, but...
