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Re: Ethical DDoS drone network
From: David Barak <thegameiam () yahoo com>
Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 09:25:36 -0800 (PST)
--- On Tue, 1/6/09, Justin Shore <justin () justinshore com> wrote:
David Barak wrote:Consider for a moment a large retail chain, withseveral hundred or a couple thousand locations. How big a lab should they have before deciding to roll out a new network something-or-other? Should their lab be 1:10 scale? A more realistic figure is that they'll consider themselves lucky to be between 1:50 and 1:100, and that lab is probably understaffed at best. Having a dedicated lab manager is often seen as an expensive luxury, and many businesses don't have the margin to support it. At the very least they should have a complete mock location (for an IT perspective) in a lab. Identical copies of all local servers and a carbon copy of their official template network. This is how AOL does it. Every change is tested in the mock remote site before the official template is changed and the template is pushed out to all the production sites.
I don't disagree at all: that is a straightforward way to anticipate *most* problems. What is does not and cannot validate is whether there is a scaling issue, and this is what doing "live" testing does give you. David Barak Need Geek Rock? Try The Franchise: http://www.listentothefranchise.com
Current thread:
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network, (continued)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Roland Dobbins (Jan 05)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Jack Bates (Jan 05)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Roland Dobbins (Jan 05)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Bill Stewart (Jan 07)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Justin Shore (Jan 06)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Stephen Sprunk (Jan 06)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Roland Dobbins (Jan 06)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Edward B. DREGER (Jan 06)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Roland Dobbins (Jan 06)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Edward B. DREGER (Jan 06)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network David Barak (Jan 06)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Mark Foster (Jan 04)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 04)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Roland Dobbins (Jan 04)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 04)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Gadi Evron (Jan 04)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network kris foster (Jan 04)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Gadi Evron (Jan 05)
- Re: Ethical DDoS drone network Patrick W. Gilmore (Jan 05)