Ridin’ the sine wave of life
When I was younger, say around 17, I used to think my life followed a sine wave (or cosine wave if you will). That is, I used to go through high and low periods, at fairly regular intervals. When life was good, it was great, and when it was on the down hill slope it sucked, until you hit the bottom and started coming back up again.
A lot of these highs and lows were related to either money, or relationships. An extra shift at Coles or a fight with mum and dad (which I did, regularly - that'll teach them for raising an independent young man :) meant a huge difference at that age.
Now that I'm older those highs and lows are not as noticable. I think it's a combination of me being more "on track", and my life needing "bigger" changes to cause the swings. An extra $50 is literally nothing to my lifestyle, when back then it was a quarter more.
... but right now I feel like I'm on the way to another peak. Stacks of things are going well, and it's all falling into place.
This started really last night, when Adam and I moved prime from QV1 out to Osborne Park. The colocation facility is moving, and this is our old server that we started with. It was one of two that Jono had left at QV1 and now it's in his racks at the new office. I say new, but he's been there for over two years now!
The move went flawlessly. And I do mean without flaw. Prime went down fine. Prime came back fine. All systems go.
When we were out there, Jono showed us a bunch of cool projects they're working on in 2006, and I'm hoping that we can forge closer relationships in this coming year. We're all mates, but there's more opportunities for each other there that we should be exploring. Listen to me, I sound like a homo :) I'm talking about making money, not making out!
One cool toy he showed us is his Iron Port. It's a real-time spam and virus checker, and we'll be using it shortly to filter all our mail. No more spam, ever. I really like that idea.
It uses a real-time black list that's based on server reputation, and all the Iron Ports in the world talk back to each other through a central service. We're all ganging up on the spammers, which makes me happy.
Next up, I applied for a credit increase. This is primarily for the holiday, but it'll also be nice to have afterwards. That hadn't come through last night, but it has this morning. I'm stoked to the max.
Life is working out pretty well, and summer's on the way :)
I’ve just finished evaluating the Ironport product as a solution to replace our current Email Edge infrastructure.
We trailed the Ironport system last year, including a certification course/exam. Unfortunately the Ironport was inadequate and failed many core features as a Mail Edge for an ISP.
However Ironport have taken a lot of our criticism on board and added many new features to their product, mainly to satisfy us as a customer.
Their new OS (4.5) seems promising with many improvements over the year. However there are still a few limiting factors they may make us hold off until their next major AsyncOS release planned for next year.
Although I will admit the Ironport is well suited for a small business. However it lacks some advanced feature sets that you can get out of Postfix.
hopefully it turns into this curve: f(x) = 2^x :)
We changed over to IronPort at work about 6 months ago. Prior to that we used ihatespam which sucked, constantly went down and missed heaps. Since IronPort went in, I get about 2 spam per month and apparently it’s a breeze to manage.
You want to make money by forging closer relationships with a man and you want to explore his iron port? Fag.
Lanzon:
If IronPort has to talk to central servers, what happens when those servers go down?
With AsyncOS, are they continually patching new FreeBSD releases with their patches or do they stick with their original version?
“You want to make money by forging closer relationships with a man and you want to explore his iron port? Fag.”
Just make sure you have your tetanus shot before “integrating information into his disparate silo via his IronPort” it could be a bit rusty.
- If IronPort has to talk to central servers, what happens when those servers go down?
I suspect you are asking what happens if the Ironport is unable to communicate with SenderBase.
You configure a HAT for the public listener where you specify different rules for incoming mail depending on SenderBase results.
I guess if SenderBase is unavailable the mail will be accepted/throttled/rejected as per your default (Anything Else) rule.
The only other central server the Ironport will require is a LDAP server if you wish to use recipient verification via LDAP. I’m unsure what would happen to the mail if the LDAP server was unavailable. It would probably be rejected.
-With AsyncOS, are they continually patching new FreeBSD releases with their patches or do they stick with their original version?
That’s a good question. There have been about three patches come through since we have been evaluating the Ironport. I would assume the patches are in relation to FreeBSD vulnerabilities or functionality bugs with their OS.
So I think the answer to your question is yes. Mark might have a more accurate answer to this question.