Question about AssertionConsumerService endpoints

[Cantor, Scott]

On 1/17/14, 4:52 PM, "Ken Weiss" <ken.weiss at ucop.edu> wrote:
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>I never realized that two SPs on two different hosts could share a common
>EntityDescriptor and metadata. I just assumed it was a 1:1 relationship.
>But thinking about it, it makes perfect sense. How else would you manage a
>farm of servers that all deliver the same application, but each with its
>own shibd installation?

That's one case, but that usually involves a load balancer. Even if the
servers are distinct, they may still be one entity. That's a logical
designation, not a physical one.

>Today that will route requests for https://dmp.cdlib.org to
>cdl-dmpv1.ucop.edu (the actual hostname that dmp.cdlib.org resolves to),
>and requests for https://dmp2.cdlib.org to cdl-dmpv2.ucop.edu (the actual
>hosthame that dmp2.cdlib.org resolves to). When we complete the transition
>from version 1 to version 2, we will change the DNS so that dmp.cdlib.org
>resolves to cdl-dmpv2.ucop.edu, and then all requests will go to version 2
>of our service and we can shut down the SP running at cdl-dmpv1.ucop.edu.
>Right?

Yes.

-- Scott