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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]
>
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 "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]

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