Category: Load Balancers

OpenStack Summit: A10 Networks Dynamic L4-7 Services for OpenStack Cloud Data Centers

As cloud data center operators adopt automatically provisioned, multi-tenant data center architectures, it is critically important that they also deliver seamless integration of application…

Loadbalancer.org releases patch for the Openssl heartbleed vulnerability CVE-2014-0160

  Vulnerability Description The bug is in OpenSSL’s implementation of the TLS/DTLS (transport layer security protocols) heartbeat extension (RFC6520). When it is exploited it leads to the leak of memory contents from the server to the client and from the client to the server. For more details, please refer to: http://heartbleed.com/   1) Updating the Hardware & Virtual Appliance   Appliance Software Versions Affected : v7.5, v7.5.1, v7.5.2, v7.5.3, v7.5.4   Hotfix Details : The hotfix includes a recompiled version of OpenSSL with the compile option “-DOPENSSL_NO_HEARTBEATS” which mitigates the vulnerability

Tremor Video selects A10 Networks next-gen ADC for present and future scalability requirements

Tremor Videos’ Senior Director of Systems Engineering, Ray Acuna, shares why A10 Networks was selected to meet their high-volume video advertising demands. Their need to consolidate disparate…

Why did my Loadbancer just fail the PCI compliance test?

Let me first say that I’m not really a fan of PCI scanners. It’s not so much that I’m anti security scanners but rather that scanning for vulnerabilities based on only the version number a package returns seems rather simplistic to me. However, what should I do if my PCI scanner reports that the Apache version running the WebUI on my appliance is too old?

SSL Offload Testing with HAProxy and Stunnel

There are a lot of SSL offload throughput statistics available for appliances across the internet but rarely do they detail the way they were tested we at loadbalancer.org wish to change that. What is SSL offloading/SSL Termination? SSL offloading is the process of moving SSL traffic decryption and encryption away from your web servers onto a centralised device, be it a loadbalancer or specific SSL offloading hardware