FYI, thought I'd pass this along so more folks interested in BALUG's
administration/administrivia would be made more generally aware of what's
happening with this. (we do also have an "unadvertised" (mostly try and
keep it off public exposure to hopefully reduce spam) off-list alias
for the "systems administrators" of BALUG ... but that alias only goes
to myself and Jim Stockford - so makes for quite limited audience ...
it's intended for those systems administrators having root/superuser
administrative access to BALUG stuff (or at least much or most of
the relevant bits thereof), and also for stuff that may be
"sensitive" and ought not be publicly exposed/archived).
And some other updates too ...
Also, as of yesterday A.M. PST, I now also have "reverse" DNS for
IPv6 that will also be used by BALUG (actually, BALUG is already
making some use of IPv6, but for mail and lists, where IPv6 is in use
we'll certainly also want to have proper "reverse" DNS also in place).
----- Forwarded message from Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu -----
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:12:12 -0800
From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu>
Subject: Re: balug.orgDreamhost.com account from suspended to
unsuspended - site coming back
To: "Michael Hubbard" <michael.hubbard(a)gmail.com>
Cc: "Jim Stockford" <jim(a)well.com>, "Rick Moen" <rick(a)linuxmafia.com>
[BCC: acohen36(a)linuxwaves.com]
That'll pro'lly mostly be me.
I did get reverse DNS set up with my ISP quite recently,
hoping to get mail and anti-spam and list software installed and
configured - or at least initial configuration bits - fairly soon.
I may also need to do bit about space (it's mostly a VM that
runs atop a laptop - so only so much SSD to spare for it ...
but I can probably squeeze out a wee bit more for it).
May take a bit to get everything moved over and tested. Do also have
some old DB stuff I want to be sure we've sucked out of DreamHost.
Michael Hubbard - what's your timeframe look like? Would 2 months, or
possibly as little as a month be sufficient? Or do you need it
faster/sooner than that? ... of course realizing faster may be
better - if feasible, so you don't have BALUG "chaining" you to
DreamHost longer than reasonably needed to smoothly move off
of DreamHost (or as smoothly as DreamHost allows to be feasible).
Let me/us know - and thanks for covering the DreamHost bit all
these years.
> From: "Michael Hubbard" <michael.hubbard(a)gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: balug.orgDreamhost.com account from suspended to
> unsuspended - site coming back
> Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 01:40:09 +0000
> Sounds good. We should talk about someone moving the site from my
> Dreamhost account to another host. I need to migrate my other sites from
> Dreamhost soon anyway.
>
> Who's going to sign up for this?
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2016, 12:09 AM Michael Paoli <Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Michael Hubbard,
>>
>> Thanks for getting that taken care of - I also now have the information
>> from
>> DreamHost that the account has gone from suspended to unsuspended, and
>> things
>> are coming back on-line. Should be all good within a few hours or so
>> (DNS TTLs 'n all that).
>>
>>
>>> From: "Michael Hubbard" <michael.hubbard(a)gmail.com>
>>> Subject: Re: balug.org dropped from Dreamhost.com? - What happened?
>>> What's status?
>>> Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 05:26:33 +0000
>>
>>> It's taken care of, I had to update an expired credit card and I missed
>> the
>>> notice while I was traveling.
>>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 14, 2016, 11:14 PM Michael Paoli <
>> Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michael Hubbard,
>>>>
>>>> What happened with balug.org & DreamHost?
>>>> Some billing glitch, or did you drop balug.org from there and not tell
>> us
>>>> at all?
>>>>
>>>> Please let us know - ASAP.
>>>>
>>>> And thanks too for what you have done and covered for BALUG.
>>>>
>>>> > From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu>
>>>> > Subject: Re: Did balug.{org,com} discontinue or get temporarily down??
>>>> > Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 20:58:41 -0800
>>>>
>>>> > Thanks for noticing and mentioning - just stumbled across that myself
>> a
>>>> bit
>>>> > earlier.
>>>> > Looks like the hosting is missing/gone (and we weren't
>>>> > notified -but not the first time that's happened) - checking into it,
>>>> > but may have to
>>>> > update DNS to point it elsewehre (& promote the staging etc. site to
>> full
>>>> > main primary production).
>>>> >
>>>> > And there is no balug.com (never was - or at least not of ours that
>> I'm
>>>> > aware of).
>>>> >
>>>> >> From: GoOSSBears <acohen36(a)linuxwaves.com>
>>>> >> Subject: Did balug.{org,com} discontinue or get temporarily down??
>>>> >> Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 19:33:37 -0800
>>>> >
>>>> >> As an FYI,
>>>> >>
>>>> >> Getting message while trying to access www.balug.org :
>>>> >> ~~~ quoting ~~~
>>>> >> Server not found
>>>> >>
>>>> >> <My browser> can't find the server at www.balug.org.
>>>> >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
----- End forwarded message -----
DO NOT REPLY ALL (unless you're subscribed to BOTH lists)
FYI, I noticed earlier this morning (they were up and online yet
earlier this morning), that offline are:
SF-LUG:
([www.]sf-lug.{org,com,info}), etc.
but lists remain up and on-line
also
BALUG
on-line: [www.]balug.org & lists,
all other balug bits (e.g. wiki, archive other than list archive, etc.)
still presently off-line.
I expect to have more information (and hopefully have whatever is the issue
corrected) by later this evening.
Have IPv6 partially implemented for BALUG.
Notably it's present on the ancillary sites,
but not yet present for [www.]balug.org,
and also lacks full delegation chain of IPv6 DNS servers.
Also, as noted, use the DNS names - IP addresses - and especially IPv6
addresses,
are subject to change. And also note that virtual name hosting is used on the
web servers.
----- Forwarded message from Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu -----
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2015 11:29:32 -0800
From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu>
Subject: SF-LUG & IPv6 :-)
To: SF-LUG <sf-lug(a)linuxmafia.com>
The SF-LUG websites
http://([www.]sf-lug.{org,com}/
now also have IPv6.
Do use the DNS names, as not only may IPv6 addresses change,
but the web server also uses virtual name hosting, and presently hosts
more than just
SF-LUG content.
Note that the list host (linuxmafia.com) does not (yet?) have IPv6.
Also, many of the BALUG.org sites now have IPv6 (notably BALUG ancillary sites
(e.g. archive & wiki sites), but not yet [www.]balug.org itself), but
these don't
yet have full chain of IPv6 DNS servers (alas, balug.org hosting
provider has no
IPv6 DNS servers).
----- End forwarded message -----
Just a bit of background. Some BALUG sites may be impacted soon, but *not*
www.balug.org or balug.org itself.
See:
http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2014-July/002233.html
for *which* sites will (and won't) be impacted
As to some background and why, have a look at:
http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2015q3/011330.html
And, for the BALUG specific bits I left out of the above:
> From: "Michael Paoli" <Michael.Paoli(a)cal.berkeley.edu>
> Subject: Re: vicki (exodus) & GoGrid/Datapipe
> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 03:14:08 -0700
> BALUG: what balug has on the virtual machine atop vicki is certainly
> highly useful and convenient, and would be relative pain to be without,
> but we could survive without, at least for a bit, and have in fact
> relocated it (temporarily) elsewhere in past.
>
> What BALUG does *not* have atop the (VM on the) vicki host:
> www.balug.org, and balug.org itself aren't on that host, but other
> sites/subdomains are, e.g. [www.]{archive,wiki}.balug.org, among others.
>
> DNS - only for some subdomains, again not balug.org. itself.
For those that may have been wondering ...
the BALUG logo:
http://www.balug.org/images/balug/logo.gif
The apparently binary data shown on bottom towards left:
01100010 01100001 01101100 01110101 01100111
What is that data? Interpreted as ASCII data in binary, it's:
balug
references/excerpts:
http://www.balug.org/images/balug/logo.gif
$ perl -e 'print(pack(q(B*),join(q(),qw(
> 01100010 01100001 01101100 01110101 01100111
> ))),"\n");'
balug
$
