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

[ultr...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 2:39:41 PM UTC-5, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2021-01-12 18:58:47 +0000, Simon Clubley said: 
> 
> > On 2021-01-12, Arne Vajhøj <ar... 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.
> -- 
> Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

no thanks I would rather pay Process to modify decnet over IP to run in an SSH tunnel.