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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-CA link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>I remember when I was a junior in a major NOC, we had this management host with a local hosts file for all critical components. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Probably worth reviewing some old school techniques. </span><span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>😉</span><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>If you can automate your gazillion routers business, you probably can also automate a couple of hosts file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Jean<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-US>From:</span></b><span lang=EN-US> NANOG <nanog-bounces+jean=ddostest.me@nanog.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Baldur Norddahl<br><b>Sent:</b> November 29, 2021 4:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> NANOG <nanog@nanog.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: IPv6 and CDN's<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>man. 29. nov. 2021 02.12 skrev Masataka Ohta <<a href="mailto:mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp">mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp</a>>:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><br><br>> The only way to truly reduce Opex at scale is automation.<br><br>Automation by what? DNS?<br><br> Masataka Ohta<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Most of our customers are provisioned by Radius. The remaining are configured by scripting using Netconf. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We use DNS to document the network. If our DNS was down and I need to connect to a router in some city, do you really expect me to remember the IP address? I would have to look it up and our chosen database for that happens to be DNS. It has some obvious advantages. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Baldur <o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></body></html>