[Sysadmin] [theforum] evolt dns: bad mx

[Dean Mah]

On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 9:12 PM, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Sep 11, 2016 at 10:53 PM, William Anderson <neuro at well.com> wrote:
> > [snip]
> >
> > I'm going to set up Apache/PHP on cerf to migrate some static stuff
> > from tron; if it's OK with everyone, I'll probably migrate beo
> > elsewhere, since there isn't room for the 12GiB of archive data.
>
> OK, dir.evolt.org (which is really just a holding page) has been
> migrated from tron to cerf, and switched to the new style template (I
> even drilled into the wayback machine to get the right background
> colour!).
>
> browsers.evolt.org has just been migrated from tron to taylor (a new
> machine I've set up in my own DO account in NYC1).  If you visit it
> right now, you may hit tron, since the DNS will still be refreshing.
> You can tell if you're hitting taylor, as I've put a full stop/period
> at the very bottom of the browser list on the front page on taylor's
> copy of the homepage.  There's a 1 hour TTL, so try again in an hour.
>
> If you look at the list of active vhosts on tron:
>
> beo, deo, leo, noc.evolt (defunct), planet.evolt (defunct), svn.evolt
> (defunct), teo, wiki.evolt (defunct), www.evolt (migrated),
> css-discuss
>
> ... then the only things we have left to do are lists and css-discuss,
> then set up a backup strategy.  Maybe a cheap VM from a random East
> Coast VM provider to rsync/rsnapshot to?
>
> I've copied /local/apps/mailman from tron to /root/local-apps-mailman
> on cerf so that there's a base to start building on (note that I've
> ungzipped and bzip2'd the pre-adsense archives under archives/private
> to save some space)
>
> Everyone has accounts on postel, cerf and now taylor, but
> realistically cerf is where the work needs to get done.  If anyone
> logs in to do stuff, could you a) try to stick to installing kosher
> ubuntu packages with apt-get rather than random tarballs if at all
> possible, and b) log here what you've done.  Cheeeeeeers ;)
>
> *bounce*
>
> -n
>

Good stuff. I'll try to get on tonight and get the rest of mailman sorted.

Thanks for all your work.

Dean