[22] in Kakapo Windows Team
Re: WIN domain "off-site" servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kerem B Limon)
Mon Jul 7 20:16:10 2003
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Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2003 20:16:03 -0400
To: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@mit.edu>
From: Kerem B Limon <kerem.limon@MIT.EDU>
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vkumar@mit.edu, pismere-ops@mit.edu, kakapo@mit.edu
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Hi, Jonathon--
I have a quick question. For purposes of responding to customer inquiries
and for inclusion in marketing and technical documentation, I presume it's
OK to mention that there is at least geographic/site redundancy as far as
DC and Dfs roles are concerned. Are you (ASO) uncomfortable with the
locations (not that they're ultra-secret) being identified as W92 and W20?
Is there any reason to make that ambiguous (I don't anticipate so)?
Thanks,
Kerem
At 03/07/07 20:08 Monday, Jonathon Weiss wrote:
>Hi,
>
>A number of you are already aware of this, but I wanted to make sure
>that you all were.
>
>I'm pleased to announce that after work that was completed in the past
>couple of weeks, the WIN.MIT.EDU domain is no longer dependent on the
>w92 machine room for simple operations like logging in. Over the past
>weeks, all three domain controllers for WIN were upgraded, and in the
>process, one of them was moved from the w92 machine room to the w20
>machine room. The two other two DCs are still in w92, though we plan
>to move one of them to a third location on campus sometime in the next
>six to eight months or so. Additionally, a second windows fileserver
>was deployed to w20 (the first one is in w92) and the data that is
>used in daily operation of the domain has been replicated between
>them.
>
>There are (and will probably always be) some functions that are
>dependent on the w92 machine room. These include: RIS (network) based
>installs (but not CD based installs where the machine is later joined
>to the domain), and some non-critical cleanup that is done after a
>machine is joined to the domain (which will happen later if a client
>machine can't contact the w92 machine room).
>
>If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know.
>
> Jonathon
