[retronet] RetroNet concentrator DNS?

[Grant Taylor]

On 09/09/2018 06:46 PM, John P. Willis via retronet wrote:
> Questions:
> 
> * Do we envision having multiple concentrators?

Yes.  See my replies to the "Hostname conventions…" thread.  TL;DR:  We 
already have people in multiple countries expressing interest.

> * If so, are they all going to be effectively "peers" with each other?
>    (i.e. is a connection to any concentrator going to produce the same
>     effect as a connection to any other?)

I don't think so.

I think each concentrator will have a specific range of link-net IPs 
that will be used.

Duplicating credentials across all VPN concentrators would make 
configuration more difficult and likely be more exposure than we want 
the concentrators to have.

> * If both of the above are true, what about having a single DNS entry
>    that does round-robin to all available concentrators, giving us some
>    rudimentary load-balancing, or is there a more sophisticated approach
>    we should consider?

I like the desire, but I think the members in Australia would be annoyed 
if the random round robin IP they got was in the U.S., or vice versa.

I think we need to have regional concentrators.  Then allow routing 
between concentrators to take care of things.  Much like how the 
Internet works.  ;-)



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Grant. . . .
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