On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 11:22:14PM -0600, james woodyatt wrote:
I am so *so* tired of making excuses for bad code. Just once, I'd
like to be able to say, "I see your coders thought it would be a good
idea to store IP addresses in a persistent store without any cache
coherency protocol, and now you can't renumber your network without
eating the time and expense of qualifying a radical new
implementation
of your hugely business-critical software application. You know
what? That's your own fault. Not ours. p.s. I bet you'll read that
tech-note next time, right?"
OK, I bite. What answer do you give to folks that need to renumber
things like site-to-site VPN endpoints, which affects lots of
configuration
to be changed by *other* folks (their VPN peers)?