[28820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IGPs and services?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (nicholas harteau)
Wed May 17 11:08:09 2000
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 10:05:41 -0500
From: nicholas harteau <nrh@ikami.com>
To: "Roeland M.J. Meyer" <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Cc: ww@shadowfax.styx.org, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20000517100541.H8187@execpc.com>
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In-Reply-To: <00e201bfbfc8$3b7597f0$eaaf6cc7@PEREGRIN>; from rmeyer@mhsc.com on Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:22:09PM -0700
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Roeland M.J. Meyer wrote:
>
> > ww@shadowfax.styx.org: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 10:34 PM
>
> > What is the general feeling about running routing protocols on
> > web/dns/mail servers?
>
> Technically, not a problem. However, there is a school of thought that
> thinks that to be a bad policy. That routing functions should be on
> appliance-level systems, like routers.
Has anyone given any thought to using some mechanism like 'redistribute
connected' in conjunction with IPIP tunnels to hosts? When host goes
poof, tunnel interface goes down, route goes away. No complicated
routing processes are involved.
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nicholas harteau
nrh@ikami.com
