[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [FW-1] How to connecto to 2 ISP's?
Hmm, but that probably also means a higher load on the Internet connections and the possibility of timeouts if our DNS doesn't reply fast enough :-( Nico On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:52:52AM +0200, Samuel Wuethrich wrote: > As far as I know, Linkproof use very little DNS TTL so in case of a link > failure, the DNS entries should get updated very quickly around the world > > SAM > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nico De Ranter [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Dienstag, 4. Juni 2002 09:03 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FW-1] How to connecto to 2 ISP's? > > > Wow, > > never thought my little mail would spark such a thread :-). Thanks for al > the replies! > > So I have two options: BGP or the Radware box. The BGP solution seems to be > the best one but also the hardest to setup. > > 1 question about the Radware solution: for incoming connections to my mail > or webservers the Radware box will use DNS to distribute the load over both > links. However DNS queries get cached all over the Internet for periods of > days or weeks if I recall correctly. So if one of my ISP's goes down this > would mean some DNS servers on the Internet might still be caching > ip-addresses from that ISP so on the average half of the traffic won't be > reaching my servers? Correct? > > Nico > > On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 03:54:58PM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: > > Howdy, > > > > for a moment we taught our ISP went bankrupt last week. Fortunately > > this turned out not to be the case, however this kind of woke up upper > > management :-). So I'm now investigating how to use 2 ISP's for our > > Internet connection. Anybody any experience with this? Any links to > > usefull info? Is this something that should be solved on the firewall > > level or will some router magic do the trick? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Nico > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > "It has been said that there are only two businesses that > > refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and > > the computer industry." > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Nico De Ranter > > Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B) > > Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 > > Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth > > Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 > > e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------- > "It has been said that there are only two businesses that > refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and > the computer industry." > --------------------------------------------------------- > Nico De Ranter > Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B) > Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) > 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth > Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 > e-mail: [email protected] > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > send an email to [email protected] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [email protected] > ================================================= > > ================================================= > To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, > send an email to [email protected] > in the BODY of the email add: > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > ================================================= > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > please see the instructions at > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > ================================================= > If you have any questions on how to change your > subscription options, email > [email protected] > ================================================= --------------------------------------------------------- "It has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: illegal drug trade and the computer industry." --------------------------------------------------------- Nico De Ranter Sony Service Center (SDCE/VPE-B) Sint Stevens Woluwestraat 55 (Rue de Woluwe-Saint-Etienne) 1130 Brussel (Bruxelles), Belgium, Europe, Earth Telephone: +32 2 724 86 41 Telefax: +32 2 726 26 86 e-mail: [email protected] ================================================= To set vacation, Out Of Office, or away messages, send an email to [email protected] in the BODY of the email add: set fw-1-mailinglist nomail ================================================= To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html ================================================= If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, email [email protected] =================================================
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