[91114] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DNS Based Load Balancers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Ghali)
Tue Jul 4 02:21:19 2006
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 23:20:30 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matt Ghali <matt@snark.net>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <72D3F1FA-260E-4345-A2DB-D36C6A2360E1@ianai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Sun, 2 Jul 2006, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> Would you mind giving us a little more to go on than "the love of
> god" before making strategic architectural decisions?
>
> Just in case we like to decide things for ourselves. :)
Patrick, I am sorry if I have hit a nerve with you- it seems you've
got a vested interest in the answer to this question, and I
appreciate your position.
> For instance, was F5's implementation flawed, or do you have a reason to
> dislike the basic idea? And why?
For the record, what I _should_ have advised the OP was "for the
love of god, don't try to do this yourself with an appliance." I
wholeheartedly encourage him to give his local Akamai sales rep a
call. I am sorry for the confusion and angst my brevity has caused.
cheers,
matto
--matt@snark.net------------------------------------------<darwin><
Moral indignation is a technique to endow the idiot with dignity.
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