EC2 ap-southeast-2 status failures

[David Cheney]

I agree, 16 should give plenty of entropy. You still need a matching set
of EC2 creds to access the bucket, right ?

On 23/04/13 09:34, Tim Penhey wrote:
> On 23/04/13 11:29, David Cheney wrote:
>>> On 23/04/13 00:37, David Cheney wrote:
>>>> The usual smoking gnu is if it works inside us-east-1 (the legacy zone)
>>>> and fails everywhere else.
>>>>
>>>> Also, don't forget to make your control bucket name short, no more than
>>>> 20 chars.
>>>
>>> Ah... why?
>>
>> Because bucket names must also be valid dns names. In theory DNS is
>> limited to 64 char names, and 256 total length, so, len(name) < 64 &&
>> len(name.amazons3.com) < 256. However in practice we've found the limit
>> to be even lower.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju-core/+bug/1029976
>>
>> and friends.
> 
> We should make our default control bucket names smaller than their
> current 27 characters then.
> 
> Tim
> 
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