[43610] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Thoughts on BGP and Shared Hosting Environments
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Whalen)
Fri Oct 19 18:33:44 2001
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:33:13 -0700 (PDT)
From: Brian Whalen <bri@sonicboom.org>
To: "Christopher J. Wolff" <chris@bblabs.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
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It would be interesting to know what is happening to traffic in the broken
2x/21 setup. Did the various looking glasses see it correctly? Is it out
of traditional class a space, or that new block just assigned to apnic?
Brian "Sonic" Whalen
Success = Preparation + Opportunity
On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Christopher J. Wolff wrote:
>
> Had an interesting situation yesterday.
>
> Received a new /20 allocation.
> Split it into /19's and advertised it to two separate backbones via two
> separate routers.
>
> Users on the new /19's could get to about 75% of the available web hosts on
> the internet.
>
> I removed the /19's and advertised the entire /20 out of both servers,
> problem resolved.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Also, what are the groups opinions on web hosting customers who want to
> install custom ASP and COM components on a shared Windows 2000/IIS hosting
> server? I'm having a debate with a sales dude over this issue.
>
> My opinion is that it potentially destabilizes all of the virtual hosts on
> that system. When I hear "Can you install just a couple of ASP or COM
> components on my domain" my mind immediately goes to putting this customer
> in their own dedicated colo server. I don't think its right to jeopardize
> several hundred virtual domains because one $19.99/month customer wants to
> load up a special .dll. But that's just my rant, market conditions can
> dictate otherwise.
>
> Regards,
> Christopher J. Wolff, VP, CIO
> Broadband Laboratories, Inc.
> http://www.bblabs.com
> email:chris@bblabs.com
> phone:520.622.4338 x234
>
