[LINK] Fwd: Census Config [Was: Personal comments on the eCensus form]

[Bernard Robertson-Dunn]

IBM is hosting all the infrastructure at one of its Data Centres. The 
technology is AIX on a large number of LPARS on multiple hardware frames 
in an On Demand environment (ie they can re-allocate resources on the 
fly). I think the application is java in Websphere with DB2 at the back.

All data is encrypted in flight and in the database, which means the 
only time it is not encrypted is in the application itself.

I don't know any of the details of the technology architecture, however, 
knowing IBM and what the people doing the project are like, it will be 
High Availability and there will be duplicate networks/SANs etc.

Once the excercise is over, IBM will tear the system down and flog it 
off or use it for other stuff.

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 06:56 PM 2/08/2006, Roger Clarke wrote:
> 
>> Currently, www.census.abs.gov.au resolves to 202.81.31.30, 62, 94 and 
>> 126 (round-robin on one sub-net?!), but times out on pings.  The DNS 
>> entry is below.
>>
>> Whereas census.abs.gov.au says 'Bad name, address or endpoint 
>> (OTBadBameErr)'.  (I'm using Interarchy 8.1.1 at 16:50-55 UT+10).
>>
>> Am I alone in being astonished that:
>> (a)  there's no duplicate name-server (on a separate sub-net, of course)
>> (b)  there's no name-server entry for the domain-name without 'www.'
>> (c)  all of the servers appear to be on the same sub-net, and hence
>>      the service is seriously fragile
>>
>> I'm not a practitioner in this area, just someone who drifts in and 
>> out from time to time, so I'll allow for the possibility that the 
>> config is better than it looks ...
> 
> 
> Wasn't there a story that IBM is the subbie on this? Doesn't that mean 
> that IBM is the one in control of setting up all this stuff so ABS 
> didn't have to install a once off system?
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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Regards
brd

Bernard Robertson-Dunn
Sydney Australia
brd at iimetro.com.au