[Info-vax] How would you load balance excess webserver traffic between multiple OpenVMS servers?

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2021-01-12 18:58:47 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> On 2021-01-12, Arne Vajhøj <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 1/12/2021 1:18 PM, ultr... at gmail.com wrote:
>>> so basically you are stating that the "OpenVMS is most secure OS on the 
>>> planet" sales pitch bellowed by DEC and not so much HP marketing over 
>>> the years was just an oxymoron?

Counter-productive is among the most charitable of interpretations for 
that marketing shart.

>> But applying 2021 standards to software from the 1980's is silly.

Applying knowledge of pre-millennial security and risks and defenses 
and tooling to 2021-era environment is also silly.

> Unfortunately, that is exactly what VSI are doing when making the above 
> statement.

Worse.

But then Bob's heard all this before.

Write an OpenVMS app with modern security. Try it. Seriously. Go try 
it. Try a simple secure app-to-app network connection. Write a client 
and server using a TLSv1.3 connection with full client and server 
certificate verification and with a certificate revocation check, with 
encrypted storage data, and with a secure password and secure private 
key store, and with compatibility with commercial certificate vendors, 
and call me back. This is one of the most basic operations for an app 
developer writing a distributed app in 2021. And it's fundamental for 
that "maybe" app server that's been referenced here. Can OpenVMS be 
used here? Sure. Can all of this stuff be implemented? Absolutely. Is 
the source code involved here complex and bug-prone and poorly 
documented? Yes. Are these tasks easier with higher-level frameworks 
available elsewhere? Of course.

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