[Box-Admins] Re: [squeak-dev] We need to move Squeak services for the new servers ASAP.

[Levente Uzonyi]

On Thu, 2 Oct 2014, Chris Muller wrote:

> (Moved to box-admins)
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> And, I imagine the wiki and SqueakMap can be moved relatively easily.
> I am planning to look at those as soon as I can.
>
> That leaves the email lists and..?

Mantis, the complete mailing system, the mailing lists, and the 
DNS servers.
IIRC the DNS servers are already installed (not sure if they are 
configured or not) on the new boxes (IIRC by Tobias), but for some reason 
the name servers for the squeak.org domain are defined as 
a.ns.squeakfoundation.org, and b.ns.squeakfoundation.org.
This means that if we want to use the new boxes as nameservers, then these 
records have to be updated, but that can only be done my the owner of 
squeakfoundation.org (Cees de Groot).
IIRC Ken tried to achieve that for a long time without success.
Another way to solve this - and I think it would be a better solution - is 
to move these NS records to the squeak.org domain itself, but that can 
only be done by the owner of the squeak.org domain (Daniel H. H. Ingalls, Jr.).

Since box2 is the main DNS server, it has to stay up till the NS records 
are updated.


Levente

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> On Wed, Oct 1, 2014 at 6:39 PM, David T. Lewis <lewis at mail.msen.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 04:25:48PM -0700, tim Rowledge wrote:
>>> For a long time we?ve had free servers available via the SFC that we
>>> should be using instead of the Hetzner boxes that cost us (or more
>>> accurately, SFC) money. Every now and then we make a little progress
>>> in migrating but we really need to make a push on doing this *soon*.
>>> Effectively we?re spending other people?s money when we don't? need to.
>>> And we don?t even have a ?donate? button on our website right now...
>>>
>>> Levente is the official box-team leader so it?s up to him exactly how
>>> it gets done but I?d be really surprised if he couldn?t do with assistance
>>> from one or more people with some sysadmin chops. Please, volunteer if
>>> you have serious box-fu.
>>>
>>
>> Chris Muller and I were talking about volunteering to handle the migration
>> of source.squeak.org, so I think that you can count on the two of us to
>> take up that part of the project. Chris has a lot of experience with
>> SqueakSource, and I handled the migration of squeaksource.com onto our
>> servers last year, so I think that between the two of us we can get
>> source.squeak.org moved. We will make sure that anything we do has Levente's
>> support and approval.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>>
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