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

[John Kaftan <jkaftan () UTICA EDU>]

Yes that is what he is saying and I meant Tier1 ISP e.g. MCI, Level3, Sprint
etc, sorry.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hunt,Keith A [mailto:keith () UAKRON EDU]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 4:07 PM
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Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Hosting Another IHE's Web Services in the Event of a
Disaster

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Kaftan [mailto:jkaftan () UTICA EDU]
> Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 8:45 AM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Hosting Another IHE's Web Services in
> the Event of a Disaster
>
> I tried to get a secondary DNS setup offsite but our DNS guy
> shot it down.
> He said that the Tier1 DNS providers force an extended TTL to
> save traffic and cycles on their DNS servers.  Therefore no
> matter what you set your TTL to some folks will not be able
> to get to your backup site for an extended period of time.
>
> Has anyone experienced this?
>
> I am looking to do this anyway in the near future as we are
> going to switch ISPs soon and I want to ease the pain of re-numbering.

Not sure I understand this. Are you (or your DNS guy) saying that Tier1
DNS providers can override my TTL settings somehow? And what's a Tier1
DNS provider anyway?

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Keith Hunt  330.972.7968  keith () uakron edu
Internet & Server Systems
The University of Akron