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[William Anderson]

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:09 PM, David Kaufman <david at gigawatt.com> wrote:
> Hi Neuro,
>
>> If everyone else agrees, then fair enough, but it's certainly not what
>> I would do ;)
>
> Ok so I guess I meant: I am offering to help by moving the last thing
> off tron, the DNS, to GoDaddy, and offering to do it so its free, and
> any/all of us can them manage it.
>
> But If you'd prefer to setup and run bind on a DO instance, I can't
> help much with that (since I don't have access (and prefer djb or
> web-based dns :-)))  So since Dean doesn't care, if you wanna set it
> up, I'm happy to let you run it however and wherever you want!  I'm
> sure we'll work out access so the rest of us can help manage it.

Well, it's already set up, was my point ;)

>> At the very least, can we get the glue records for the domain at Gandi
>> switched to the following:
>>
>> ns0.evolt.org 188.166.199.35
>> ns1.evolt.org 159.203.156.51
>
> You lost me there.  Gandi?  Was evolt.org ever registered at Gandi?  I

Yeah, as I mentioned, that was me getting confused between css-discuss
and evolt.  My bad.

> certainly don't have THAT login, or any idea how to switch any
> nameserver records that may have been setup there there.  Not even
> sure I'm 100% clear how to change them at all (or, for that matter,
> exactly what "glue records" even *are*...)  How can you see which
> registrar has a nameserver glue record...?

Tis OK, after you granted me access, I changed the nameserver records,
which need to have separate special entries elsewhere in the interface
for their IPs.

Basically, you have to specify the IP addresses of your nameservers if
you're going to use something.yourdomain, which are the glue records,
because if you have to do a dns lookup to evolt.org to find out what
ns1.evolt.org is, and you don't know yet what IP ns1.evolt.org is on,
then how can you lookup a record from a server that you don't know the
IP of? :)

tl;dr, it's sorted :)

> Taking a step back, maybe better questions are:
>
> Do you not have access to the evolt GoDaddy account to make these
> types of changes yourself?

I didn't!

> And if not, would you like one?

I would!

> Looks like I can "invite" others to delegate access to the account.

Apparently you can!

> Invite sent :-) but if you'd rather I make the changes I'm happy to --
> just let me know

Invite accepted and changes made!!

> Lastly,
>
> You shouldn't have to pay for the DO servers yourself!  Does Digital
> Ocean accept Paypal?

Yes, but on a prepaid balance basis, so you need to (manually) top up
your DO account before an invoice becomes due.  Which is a bit shit.
Paying by debit/credit card is normal though (feed in details,
payments get taken off automatically when due).

We can figure something out.

-n