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That feature requires you to use a private IP address, so if you have a VPN or Direct Connect to another location you could load balance across locations. In the case of the global…

Mistake seems like a harsh word here. There are lots of partners that aren't in the competency tier that do perfectly fine work. But we try to highlight the ones we can somehow qua…

AWS keeps a list of vetted partners (business requirements, public references, case studies, good AWS relationship, etc) on the competency page. You can see the different sorts of …

This link is basically what Socketplane was working on when they got acquired: https://github.com/docker/docker/issues/8951 Basically integrating OVS APIs into Docker so it could u…

I've been on break/fix and on the Sales Engineer side and know both - there's never a single side to these things. Sales Engineers in particular don't want to sell something dishon…

Skype pulls in a lot of revenue in the OCS/Lync product set. Companies want still largely want to be able to IM MSN, Yahoo, Skype, and AOL users and they're the only ones that have…

Not a flame - your perspective is very typical for people that don't have a lot of experience with networking past the host or server level. (Very little experience with networking…

Here's a report you can see the current projects with a bit of history: http://www.potaroo.net/tools/ipv4/index.html The potaroo site by Geoff Huston has been running for over a de…

If HN was on AWS, where would we go to discuss AWS outages?

It looks like the explain xkcd community finally cracked the codes: http://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php?title=1286:_Encryp... Check out the discussion - it took a while to fi…

Interesting, I'm at 1084 days so I missed a chance at a round-number-blog-post. I would echo many of the same things. I graduated with a computer science degree (and computer syste…

For reference, this is an output of the Stanford startup engineering course (which I also signed up for after it hit the HN front page) In the homework, this is what they mention t…

It applies if you want to switch schools. We used to call it "failing in".

I'm just hoping I'll be able to drink in a driverless car before I can use electronics in an airplane. If the same safety-at-all-costs model applies to driving these cars, they won…

How many of these P2P overlay networks could run without a centralized head/mapping server? BitTorrent has drastically reduced the size of theirs, but it still needs a mapping of o…

When I played Everquest I did a very similar thing, except without the ship component. We found an obscure item that was not in any of the well-known databases, which is fairly dif…

This is true - RADIUS and TACACS are the most secure way to access routers. I've found that nearly all routers in nearly all environments still have a local authentication. If you …

The worst part about this is that there is no default password. It's marginally worse than doing nothing - people just voluntarily use cisco/cisco because they don't care about sec…

It's not a 'switch' but rather failed implementation. As well, this is only protecting people that would have otherwise put their saved passwords into insecure locations - like pos…

He's at least 10 years late on multicast networks. Here's the 1985 RFC that's considerably more detailed than his from 1996: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc966

Visualizing this conversation.. IT Director to Sales Guy: "We just got $20M in grant money for getting broadband across the state. Can you get me some numbers?" Sales guy to engine…

I tend to vote against this type of security by opting out of the scanners. If even one quarter of the passengers opted out they would need to reexamine their security - one that w…

For the curious, this is a small scale map of what they'll be viewing: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/wireless/ps5755/p... I would be really curious to what the wireles…

Depending on the game (it's been 10 years for me) one 'hack' was to head in one direction, pull the network connection for 3-4 seconds, head in the opposite direction, and plug bac…

You're really fighting two mantras - 'if it's not broken, don't fix it' vs 'we must build against worst case everything'. The arguments generally come from IT support and legal, re…