Silo's Quick Host functionality allows customers to connect to the quickest host connection available, which may not always be one that is geographically closest to the end-user
Client Requirements
• Silo Windows client version 2.9.12 and newer
• Web Client
Silo Location Settings
Ensure that Silo for Safe Access is configured for more than one data center location
From the Silo Admin Console, navigate to [Manage] Policies > Advanced > Silo Location to review the location policy
Windows Registry (enabled by default)
Quick Host is enabled without any required changes to the native client registry. However, if you wish to disable the Quick Host functionality, you may do so with the registry updates detailed below:
Quick Host - Windows Registry (enabled by default)
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Authentic8,Inc.\Authentic8]
"UseQuickHost"=dword:00000000
UseQuickHost Settings
UseQuickHost Value | Quick Host Setting |
0 | Quick Host is set to OFF |
1 | Quick Host is set to ON |
No Registry entry | When there is no UseQuickHost registry entry, then Quick Host is set to ON. This is the default setting for UseQuickHost |
Silo Host Connection Process
Quick Host ON/OFF | Silo Host Connection Process |
ON | When Quick Host is ON, Silo begins the connection process to all set regional data centers, with the best available endpoint becoming the working connection |
OFF | When Quick Host is OFF, Silo will attempt to use the closest data center, but may have the tendency of connecting to a random endpoint. This is determined by comparing the geo-location of the IP address (as determined by Maxmind), along with the coordinates of the application servers in our database table |
Sample Log Entries
14:49:00.582 INFO: Establishing connections to Session Hosts and finding a quick one 14:49:00.582 INFO: Connect Monitor :waiting for a quick session host from 5 session hosts 14:49:00.583 STATUS: Session Host 0 :Session will go directly to the server (app-gce-west-lb1.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:00.583 STATUS: Session Host 1 :Session will go directly to the server (app-gce-east-lb1.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:00.583 STATUS: Session Host 0 :Establishing Secure Session With app-gce-west-lb1.authentic8.com Port 443 14:49:00.583 STATUS: Session Host 2 :Session will go directly to the server (app-gce-asia-lb1.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:00.583 STATUS: Session Host 1 :Establishing Secure Session With app-gce-east-lb1.authentic8.com Port 443 14:49:00.583 STATUS: Session Host 3 :Session will go directly to the server (app-gce-europe-lb1.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:00.583 STATUS: Session Host 2 :Establishing Secure Session With app-gce-asia-lb1.authentic8.com Port 443 14:49:00.583 STATUS: Session Host 4 :Session will go directly to the server (app-gce-asia-lb2.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:00.584 STATUS: Session Host 3 :Establishing Secure Session With app-gce-europe-lb1.authentic8.com Port 443 14:49:00.584 STATUS: Session Host 4 :Establishing Secure Session With app-gce-asia-lb2.authentic8.com Port 443
14:49:01.238 INFO: Connection Info : Session Host 1 : Success, connection time 359 ms (app-gce-east-lb1.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:01.238 INFO: Connection Info : Session Host 2 : Success, connection time 609 ms (app-gce-asia-lb1.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:01.238 INFO: Connection Info : Session Host 3 : Success, connection time 593 ms (app-gce-europe-lb1.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:01.238 INFO: Connection Info : Session Host 4 : Success, connection time 656 ms (app-gce-asia-lb2.authentic8.com:443) 14:49:01.238 INFO: Connection Info : use Session Host 0 (app-gce-west-lb1.authentic8.com:443) for current session 14:49:02.089 INFO: Client version is good. Proceeding. |
Additional Resources
Understanding IP Address Geolocation
Please contact Support for any additional questions