Field notes
Write-ups of real problems from the field and how they were fixed. Client names, addresses and configurations have been changed or removed.
- SRX site-to-site VPN stuck in IKE phase 1? Check these in order
A practical checklist for Juniper SRX IPsec tunnels that won't come up, from upstream filtering and host-inbound-traffic to proposals, identities and proxy-IDs.
- What breaks when you migrate AD-integrated DNS to Infoblox
Lessons from leading Microsoft DNS and DHCP migrations to Infoblox — SRV records, secure dynamic updates, _msdcs, conditional forwarders, scavenging and DHCP options.
- Building an Apstra EVPN-VXLAN fabric with Terraform: lessons from production
Practical lessons from defining a Juniper Apstra fabric entirely in Terraform — structuring the code, resource pools, explicit commits, drift from GUI changes and provider versioning.