[Wylug-admin] WYLUG DNS is orphaned - proposal to move it

James Holden wylug at jamesholden.net
Sat May 10 12:36:42 UTC 2008


On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 12:20:34PM +0100, John Leach wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 21:45 +0100, James Holden wrote:
> > I've tried (and failed) to find who maintains the DNS zonefile for
> > wylug.org.uk. Ian Kirk works for the current DNS host and has offered to
> > send the zonefile over so we can host it somewhere we can actually get
> > to it.
> > 
> > So.... I propose to move the DNS over some new servers. I can host it on
> > aql's DNS servers, which are in separate locations and networks and
> > currently host several thousand domains for our legacy hosting customers.
> 
> ???If you move it we can do things with it - sounds good to me :)

That's the idea :)

> I guess it does make you a single point of failure for changes though,
> but I guess changes won't happen often.

True... but at least the location is known and aql will of course
release it if need be. Better than it being on my own servers etc.

> Maybe you could document the new state on the wiki somewhere?  Maybe we
> could come up with a "continuity plan" in the event of the proverbial
> bus catching up with you or whatever and put that on the wiki too.

Of course :)

James

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> John.
> 
> 
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