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Rapid City - Pennington County Emergency Management Website Alert Participation

Patents US 7,720,998 B2, US 7,836,207, US Application 20110119398, International and PTO Pending.

We encourage public website participation in Rapid City - Pennington County Emergency Management Internet Alert System. By following the below easy instructions your website can participate in emergency Internet alerts initiated by emergency management staff in Rapid City - Pennington County, South Dakota. This can save the lives of our citizens by providing them quick access to emergency details through local Internet websites.  This advanced warning system facilitates emergency warnings and news through websites during an emergency or threat.  To include emergency banners on your website during a local disaster  or threat you will need your own website domain address and then you will need to undertake small changes to your EXTERNAL DNS setup.

If you do not have your own web address then please register one and have your web developer setup and use your new address, then you can follow the below instructions for setup.

Directions To Edit Your Existing DNS Server To Participate:

1. Register Your Website With FastCommand Do Not Follow The Below Steps Until You Register Your Website With FastCommand First.

2. Add a www2 'A' record that matches your existing www record. Your www and your www2 now point to your homepage.

3. Change the existing www record to a "CNAME" record on your EXTERNAL DNS server so that it now points to the FastCommand switch domain specified below:

EXAMPLE...  www.yourwebsite.com

www.yoursite.com  IN CNAME   rcpc.fastcommand.com
www2.yoursite.com  IN A      12.150.248.39

Make sure you access your new www2 address. See that it is visible in your Internet Browser to confirm it is setup correctly. Example (http://www2.yourwebsite.com)

Additional Elective Steps For Optimal Use

US Patent Numbers 7,720,998 B2, 7,836,207