Re: Hosting Another IHE's Web Services in the Event of a Disaster

[Harry Flowers <flowers () MEMPHIS EDU>]

We're doing that with another university in our state system that's
about 200 miles away.  To answer the additional question about DNS, we
have a secondary at yet a different university in a different state.  At
the minimum, you'd want a secondary at your host site if nowhere else.
In the event of an emergency where none of your services were available,
you'd need to have someone edit the secondary manually to change the IP
address for you primary web server.
--
Harry Flowers
Manager, Systems Software
Information Technology Division
The University of Memphis
(901) 678-3650 


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        From: Neil Davin [mailto:Neil_Davin () EMERSON EDU] 
        Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 11:18 AM
        To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
        Subject: [SECURITY] Hosting Another IHE's Web Services in the
Event of a Disaster
        
        

        I am interested in learning if there are institutions of higher
education that have agreed to host one another's basic web services,
such as another institution's web site, in the event that those services
are down due to a disaster.   Any information on this topic would be
greatly appreciated.

         

        Thank you.

         

         

        Neil Davin

        Manager of Technology Support Services

        Emerson College

        120 Boylston St.

        Boston, MA  02116-4624

        (617) 824-8094