That name Simontatham I think was the creator or something. Putty makes that entry. It has nothing to do with the user on the computer.

@Dashrender said:

Short of getting a direct link to what someone is suggesting for you, it's very likely you'll get the wrong (though infected) thing. 😞

Windows is the worst. The Metro store has no search at all, no idea how you were supposed to use it. The Windows Phone store was actually nothing but malware. No real apps at all. The entire platform might as well have been designed for malware. It seemed to have no other function. For that reason alone, nothing more needed, I don't see it as a viable device.

One of the most important steps of taking backups is testing them. Not just the processes, but that is how you verify that the backups are being taken correctly too.

@Dashrender said:

I'm not sure about that if that was the case, then why is Scott so dead set against Hot Spares? Unless he's only against hot spares for spinning rust RAID 5.

Hot Spares with R5 are insane as it could be a live part of the array making it a RAID 6. RAID 1, same thing, just make it part of the array. Both cases are insane to have hot spares.

With RAID 6 you can have them in situations where the hot spare does not push you unnecessarily close to RAID 10 and RAID 5.3 (aka RAID 7) is not available. But that's relatively uncommon.

In RAID 10 you can have them but they only make sense in very large arrays or cases where you just can't get to the array to swap the failed drives.

In some cases it is an architectural problem, in others it is that the cost is just not justified.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Dashrender said:

I'm at X for 110 PCs and 10 servers... so we're doing better, but my pay is higher than Scott's number too.

Right, I was targeting someone that was principally focused on desktops. And it came out very high. The enterprise numbers that I have heard are like $1,000 - $1,500 per desktop, per year.

I'm guessing we are closer to the higher range that you mentioned.. that's all I was trying to say.

Did you end up getting this to work?

What was wrong?

@JaredBusch said:

@scottalanmiller said:

@hubtechagain has a thread about it. He's pretty impacted (by the outage, not from his fiber intake.) Pertino responded that they are aware and are working on it.

can you merge threads now? would be nice.

I just checked. No merge feature yet 😞

We saw issues with this, was causing speeds of 500 bytes on those pipes.

Adam - welcome to the community and overlay networking!

Not trying to hijack the thread as this appears to be a ZT feature request topic, but since Pertino has come up a number of times, here are the answers:

DNS: PITA. We solved it by using customer internal DNS in AD environments. This is a solution for many customers, but not the end all. Without some type of local integration, overlay networks can never really be used for an internal company network because protocols will not translate.

Free plans: all trials revert to a free network for up to 3 devices; existing free plans with more devices are still live - thanks beta testers! Take the class-action suit to LMI 😘

Chef/Puppet: you can automate Pertino installs with your orchestration tools. We even have a Docker compatible client for cloud-bursting, cross-DC networking

LDAP integration/custom UI: We've got some APIs already available, some in the works. Plan is to make it so if you don't want to, you never have to enter the Pertino console.

Best,
Josh

Cached mode for 2016 is disabled just like all the rest, yeah!

I do this because calendars don't play nice when you're opening up 12 other people calendars regularly, and so are 80 other people.

No cached mode means you're working live on the system at all times, or your not working at all.

@Dashrender said:

What do you expect to happen? That DNS queries should all go to the DNS server provided by the VPN DHCP request?

That's the hope if it is working correct. The VPN client should set the IP address of the workstation with a VPN address and make the primary DNS entry be one that looks through the VPN to the AD DC / DNS server with internal resolution. If not, why not? If so, what IP gets returned. The right one? Or if the wrong one, why?

Thanks for looping back. SQL jobs are not in my wheelhouse any longer.

@scottalanmiller said:

They are a Spanish language company based in Ecuador.

I know this.

Good point, let's start a new topic on Split Horizon DNS. When to use it and if it makes sense in your case 🙂

@DustinB3403 said:

Even though we couldn't possibly push a full month's backup (~24TB [this would comprise 4 weeks of full backups]) offsite it might be viable for the incremental backups. Which is what I now need to look into, and our weekly delta is low enough that we need to weigh the options of taking tapes / disks home weekly with the cost to restore from an online storage provider.

You can't keep incrementals offsite without the fulls. Incrementals only are useful with fulls. The two are part of the same package.

@coliver said:

That seems like a pretty crucial feature for a chat client to have...

The ability to.... chat?

It's almost NO CONTEST now after watching this video:

Youtube Video

Yes, I love social engineering stories!