[29668] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: bad idea?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Wed Jul 5 11:40:35 2000
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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To: "Devin P. Anderson" <devin@stargate.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2000 08:38:18 -0700
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>> Given a small, globally routable netblock to be used for front-end web
>> servers, and a strong aversion for using DNS for any type of load
>> balancing, would it be reasonable to build two identical servers farms
>> with the same public IP addresses and rely on the BGP sessions with the
>> hosing providers to remove one advertisement in the event of a problem?
>> I've been looking at ways to ensure that the webservers are always
>> available, short of building a network connecting hosting facilities.
>
> Dude, saying things like that on this group is likely to get you executed.
> Building a discontigious AS isn't the answer.
i missed the part where he said discontiguous as. please point it out to
us.
randy
