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Making Round Robin DNS usable.

I have been fairly consistently telling people a lie for the last ten years - and that is that Round Robin DNS can not be used for high availability. Its a view I have held pretty strongly, but two people have shown me techniques in the last week that have made me change my […]

A Fibre (or Fiber) ethernet primer.

I’d normally stuck to Copper Ethernet until fairly recently, but some work that I am doing now prevents me from using copper. I thought I’d put together a quick primer for people in a similar situation.
Unlike with ethernet-over-copper cables, inside fibre signals are transmitted via light instead of DC electrical current. Light rays […]