[c-nsp] GSS and ACE

[Roland Dobbins]

On Apr 23, 2009, at 12:26 PM, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> Why 2 at each IDC?  Since each box acts as a backup for the other,  
> if IDC #1 goes down - then the GSS at IDC #2 takes over.

Because if IDC #1 goes offline entirely, your DNS for whatever  
services you're running are now hanging by a single thread  in IDC #2,  
until IDC #1 comes back up.

>  What benefit, other than to Cisco share value, would someone get to  
> having 2x GSS at each IDC?


See above.  I'm not a salesman, I derive no benefit from suggesting  
folks overload on GSSes.  From an availability standpoint, that's  
simply my considered professional opinion, YMMV.

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