Facility wide DR/Continuity

[rdobbins at arbor.net (Roland Dobbins)]

On Jun 4, 2009, at 12:53 AM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:

> Or you use RFC1918 address space at each location, and NAT each side  
> between
> public anycasted space and your private IP space. Prevents internal IP
> conflicts, having to deal with site to site NAT, etc.

With all due respect, both of these posited choices are quite ugly and  
tend to lead to huge operational difficulties, susceptibility to DDoS,  
etc.  Definitely not recommended except as a last resort in a  
difficult situation, IMHO.

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