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

[Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks () VT EDU>]

On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 16:22:15 CDT, Harry Flowers said:
> 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.

The part people who do this *always* manage to forget is to publish the DNS
entries with a low enough TTL to matter - if www.yourschool.edu has a 5-day TTL
on it, it's likely going to be several days before some places notice.

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