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Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability For August 31st, 2018

High Scalability

GossiTheDog : This is wild - the White House are rolling back cybersecurity baseline standards for government (saying they will issue new ones in the future), and ditching deployment of DNSSEC and IPv6 (as mandated under Obama admin) saying they are already in place (they aren’t). They'll love you even more. More more more.

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How Analyzing External Attack Surface Data Boosts Your Security Strategy 

Tenable

Record types : It’s useful to know, for example, that a record type is an A record vs an AAAA record because the reason one user can see the content and another can’t see it might have everything to do with the fact that they aren’t able to connect to IPv6 from their house, while another user can.

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Scaling BGP Peering in Kentik's SaaS Environment

Kentik

While we were able to scale connections and achieved a mostly uniform distribution among the peering nodes (example below), our setup was still not really IPv6 ready and needed full exaBGP restarts upon any topology modification, resulting in BGP flaps for customers. IPv6 peerings are starting to outgrow a single node.

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