Closed
Bug 1422062
Opened 6 years ago
Closed 6 years ago
Reinstate VPN gateway for London office
Categories
(Infrastructure & Operations :: Infrastructure: OpenVPN, task)
Infrastructure & Operations
Infrastructure: OpenVPN
Tracking
(Not tracked)
RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 1287450
People
(Reporter: ato, Assigned: colano)
Details
Some time ago the per-office VPN gateways that allowed you to access the office network from the comfort of your home was shut down in favour of a single VPN gateway located in the data centre in Santa Clara [1]. The Santa Clara gateway is probably mostly fine to use if you live in North America and you’re accessing a machine on the west coast. It is also possible to use it from London to gain access to the office network, but because it is routed via Santa Clara you end up putting two lengths of the internet between your local machine and the remote machine you’re trying to reach. The latency makes it unsuitable to use for accessing any remote not located in North America. The reason we want per-office VPN gateways reinstated is primarily so that developers that compile mozilla-central a lot can make use of the office icecream cluster [2], which significantly speeds up the compilation of Firefox. Some of us also like to use our local laptop as a terminal for remotely working on a more powerful workstation hooked into the icecc cluster. This keeps the laptop cool and lets you access systems with different characteristics than your own. This disincentivise employees that compile a lot of code from working from home because you end up being less productive that you would be in the office. It is sometimes nice to have the opportunity to stay in the comfort of your home when it is pouring down outside. I’m filing this on behalf of the London office, who would like the Infrastructure & Ops to reconsider and enable a VPN gateway into the office. [1] https://mana.mozilla.org/wiki/display/SD/VPN [2] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Developer_guide/Using_Icecream
Updated•6 years ago
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Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 6 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Updated•6 years ago
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Assignee: network-operations → colano
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