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Comment on About by Thomas Lekai

Thomas Lekai — Tue, 14 May 2013 21:01:54 +0000

Like the site man, I actually ran into an issue that brought this up on a search. LOL

Comment on Cloudflare, now offering to be your Single Point of Failure by tester

tester — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:20:14 +0000

hi, I really experienced some difficult time using CloudFlare, I think CF did hijacked my DNS, even after I changed my personal DNS setup. I m not sure how it did it yet, but I think CF is not doing right.

Comment on Cloudflare, now offering to be your Single Point of Failure by Unknown

Unknown — Mon, 29 Apr 2013 14:16:17 +0000

Comment on Cloudflare, now offering to be your Single Point of Failure by Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 19:12:43 +0000

I agree 100% especially considering their recent 100% network outage due to a misconfig causing a juniper bug. The foundation of their product starts at the dns level so they do not permit AXFR or secondary dns. Also it would contradict their business model as a security and acceleration offering. If they wanted to offer a dns only product they could but they are in another niche. The best combo I’ve found is linode dns + dns.he.net (secondary) or AWS route 53.

But what would they offer in the SLA ? It would prorate to pennies for downtime.

Comment on Simple jQuery: how to validate IPv4 addresses and netmasks by admin

admin — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:34:37 +0000

Set required:false

Comment on Cloudflare, now offering to be your Single Point of Failure by admin

admin — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 16:29:15 +0000

I understand anycast technology and how the two DNS entries can translate into more than two physical servers, however if I want to have a non-cloudflare DNS server as my 3rd or 4th entry at the registrar then that results in CF disabling the services for the domain. This limits the control the user has over their DNS architecture if they want to use CF services. It’s very simple to implement secondary DNS service for a domain so that the next inevitable cloudflare failure doesn’t bring down the customer’s site but their automated processes check registrar entries and disallow any alternative DNS servers. Anycast doesn’t make a difference when cloudflare fails to resolve entries and that is the situation where one would benefit from having 3rd or 4th non-cloudlfare DNS servers on their domain.

Overall CF is a fine idea, and it combines many previously existing technologies into a ‘one stop shop’ sort of product. However, the requirement to have all DNS run through their service for a TLD implementation but then not offer an SLA equates to quite high risks to the customer when things go wrong – and which have been going wrong far too often for a core technology that they’re selling. Overall my experience is that CF has good ideas but their implementation leaves much to be desired and many items still to fix. Cloudflare needs to fix their basic services and offer an SLA to Pro accounts or remove that account type as being labelled “professional” since sites engaged in professional services generally want their sites online and expect something for their money aside from “oh sorry, but that $25/m doesn’t mean it will work all the time”.

Comment on Cloudflare, now offering to be your Single Point of Failure by Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:19:31 +0000

Your not accurate about having only two dns servers with cloudflare. They use anycast so technically you have two name servers in every POP which is currently 25 x 2 geographically disperse data centers. These are I’m sure highly available as well so each data center may have more than two dns servers serving your domain. I don’t know anywhere else you can get 50+ anycast dns servers for free. The SPOF still exists for an issue affecting all their data centers but they are quite resilient

Comment on Simple jQuery: how to validate IPv4 addresses and netmasks by mido

mido — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:29:25 +0000

how to make validate with no require
… pass filed when it empty

Comment on Win a free book at the February Python Book Contest by admin

admin — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:02:45 +0000

This contest was quite some time ago, so unfortunately there are no free copies left.

Comment on Bash scripting: ElasticSearch and Kibana init.d scripts by admin

admin — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 17:01:35 +0000

The script specifies “/bin/sh” but it can use “/bin/bash” — there aren’t any bash specific items in the code that require that shell, so the lighter weight and more portable (bash isn’t installed on every unix so it’s common to code things in sh to ensure code can work on environments that don’t have bash) shell was chosen.