[LON-CAPA-admin] Ohio K-12: multidomain versus single domain

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

On Jul 11, 2006, at 4:08 PM, lucasm at ohiou.edu wrote:

>
> Felicia points out that multiple domains eases transition to a  
> separate machine or the migration of the school's domain to a  
> different hosted server.

Agreed.

>
> Hon-Kie points out that it's a royal pain in the butt to add  
> another domain to the system and have everyone recognize it (what's  
> the current status on pushing or pulling out updated host tables?).


Yes, this is still a royal pain in the butt, but I need to do it all  
the time. It does take time a lot of time to get the host tables  
distributed, since they are currently part of the releases,  
especially since people don't update their machines ...

We need to fix this.

>
> Are there any comments from above about having multiple domains  
> show up in the new list rather than one more?

Also for FERPA reasons, you should have multiple domains.

- Gerd.