[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?
Stephen Hoffman
seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid
Mon Jan 11 16:22:06 EST 2021
On 2021-01-11 21:01:51 +0000, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply said:
> In article <rti7e3$6ik$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman
> <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>
>> And I'd discourage the use of DECnet in any new configuration
>> generally, as DECnet links are unencrypted and unauthenticated.
>
> Of course, but presumably here the machines with the Rdb database would
> be connected to the webservers via a dedicated connection, i.e. no way
> to get to them unless you get to the machines they're connected to, in
> which case you've probably lost anyway.
If DECnet, FTP, telnet, and other similar giblets from those earlier
eras are your preference or fit your requirements, have at.
I prefer to avoid assuming that the local network is secure, that the
local network can even be secured, and further prefer to avoid
implementing apps with insecure, unauthenticated, and feature-frozen
communications.
This whether during app overhauls, or within new-app work.
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