[Box-Admins] a plan

[David T. Lewis]

Thanks Chris,

I'm also looking at squeaksource.com, which runs on box3. It stopped working
perhaps 7 hours ago or so, based on the time stamp of the last saved image.

But I also see that the image is about 6 times bigger than it should be, so
something is going wrong beyond just the DNS issues.

Can you tell me - has anything changed on box3 in the last 12 hours or so?
Any apache, dns config, software installations or changes?

I have limited time right now but I will try to get a copy of the squeaksource.com
image onto a PC so I can see what is going on with it. Right now I cannot access
it with VNC so I'm pretty sure that the image is stuck in its startup list
processing, and the only way to debug it will be to run it on another machine
with the UI active.

Thanks,
Dave


On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 08:10:32AM -0400, Chris Cunnington wrote:
> 1. http://build.squeak.org works fine as it's on box3. The problem is in box2, specifically in the /tinydns/root/data.in file that I changed yesterday. 
> 
> 2. The plan I have to fix this is to change the TTL to one hour and iterate. The problem is the wildcard which did duty for many subdomains reaching box2. 
> 
> 3. I count those subdomains to be: ftp, bugs, source, wiki, map, www, nil, news, and lists. 
> 
> 4. I intend to remove the wildcard and state each subdomain explicitly. The current state of the tinydns file is attached [1]
> 
> 5. For future reference the way tinydns works is as follows. Edit the data (or data.in) file and execute make. 
> This produces a fresh data.cdb file, which takes effect immediately. tinydns need not be restarted. 
> 
> 6. The /tinywiki/root/Makefile in box4 compiles the data.cdb file and then rsync's a copy to box3. 
> There is no such relationship to box2, I don't think. At least from reading the Makefiles in boxes 2 and 4. 
> 
> 7. I apologize for stopping the squeak rig in its tracks. The fault is mine. And as I have taken the blame, I feel free to say that this setup is a kludge. 
> 
> 8. I think there is no chance of the email knocking out, as it's on the lists subdomain on squeakfoundation.org, which I have no need to touch. It should continue to work as expected. 
> 
> Thank you for your patience, 
> 
> Chris 
> 
> 
> [1] 
> 
> # SqueakFoundation.org
> .squeakfoundation.org:85.10.195.197:a
> .squeakfoundation.org:69.72.148.198:b
> +squeakfoundation.org:85.10.195.197
> +*.squeakfoundation.org:85.10.195.197
> 
> +box2.squeakfoundation.org:85.10.195.197
> +lists.squeakfoundation.org:85.10.195.197
> @lists.squeakfoundation.org:85.10.195.197:box2.squeakfoundation.org
> Cmap1.squeakfoundation.org:map.squeak.org
> 
> # Squeak.org
> .squeak.org:85.10.195.197:a.ns.squeakfoundation.org
> .squeak.org:69.72.148.198:b.ns.squeakfoundation.org
> +squeak.org:85.10.195.197
> +*.squeak.org:85.10.195.197
> 
> # Box3 at Gandi.net via SFC October 2012
> +box3.squeak.org:173.246.101.237
> +build.squeak.org:173.246.101.237
> 
> # Box4 at Gandi.net via SFC December 2012
> +box4.squeak.org:173.246.104.42
> +www.squeak.org:173.246.104.42