BALUG list(+list archives) migrations - temporary subdomain name: temp.balug.org
Did it - set up (sub)domain temp.balug.org. for use with list migrations.
Thanks Rick, for the suggestion! I think temp is best compromise between fully descriptive (too long), and shortest that conveys meaning (tmp may be clear to those more familiar with Linux/Unix, but may not be sufficiently clear for, e.g. those interested in Linux, but not or not particularly familiar with Linux). At first I was thinking it not having "lists" as part of the name wouldn't or might not be clear enough ... but including "lists" is relatively unneeded and unimportant and makes the name much longer than needed ... and besides, it's only temporary anyway, so temp is more than good enough, and quite sufficiently short, without being overly terse.
Also, I set up temp.balug.org. as a delegated subdomain! 8-O Yes, there's good reason for that, notably: o makes dealing with it and changing it if/as needed *much* easier (dealing with changing stuff on DNS managed by DreamHost.com is relatively cumbersome and annoying) o There are a lot or things DreamHost.com hosted DNS just doesn't let one do - e.g. change the TTL on DNS Resource Records (RRs). o It's only temporary anyway - once DNS is fully off of DreamHost.com's hosted DNS, it can then be rather easily merged in with the parent delegation and managed with that DNS.
The NS and SOA records are needed for the delegation, at present, showing the records we have: $ dig @`dig +short temp.balug.org. NS | head -n 1` +noall +answer +norecurse temp.balug.org. ANY www.temp.balug.org. ANY temp.balug.org. 14400 IN SOA ns1.balug.org. hostmaster.balug.org. 1493101447 14400 1800 1814400 1800 temp.balug.org. 14400 IN NS ns1.balug.org. temp.balug.org. 14400 IN A 198.144.194.238 temp.balug.org. 14400 IN AAAA 2001:470:1f04:19e::2 temp.balug.org. 14400 IN MX 100 mx.temp.balug.org. www.temp.balug.org. 14400 IN A 198.144.194.238 www.temp.balug.org. 14400 IN AAAA 2001:470:1f04:19e::2 $
The www.temp.balug.org. and AAAA records probably aren't required, but may be good to have, and can be dropped/altered easily enough if/as necessary.
Also, while I was renewing SSL cert anyway, I also added: temp.balug.org www.temp.balug.org to the cert, in case those may be desirable.
Timeline (gu)estimates? I'd like to have working balug-test@temp.balug.org list by end of the month ... but that maybe overly optimistic. Within a week's time is a more probable target to be met. Following that I'm hoping then to move over the remaining lists and everything off of DreamHost.com by mid-May - or "worst case", certainly by end of May. I'd like to move BALUG's lists, one at a time, in fairly timely succession - but allowing some time between to see if there are any glitches of note that come up - especially anything that's feasible to better smooth the migration in the procedures. The lists would migrate in the sequence: balug-admin@lists.balug.org balug-talk@lists.balug.org balug-announce@lists.balug.org Will also have to set up the infrastructure to handle: @balug.org Once all that's done, then some final remnant bits to migrate/copy/rsync from DreamHost.com, then DNS can be undelegated from DreamHost.com. At that point (after suitable TTL wait) we're fully off of DreamHost.com. Can then reconfigure to return lists.balug.org to canonical, and phase out temp.balug.org (e.g. before expiration at 2017-07-24T10:44:00+0000 of cert that covers temp.balug.org and www.temp.balug.org).
references/excerpts: http://lists.balug.org/pipermail/balug-admin-balug.org/2017-April/003064.htm...
From: "Rick Moen" rick@linuxmafia.com Subject: Re: [BALUG-Admin] BALUG list(+list archives) migrations - temporary subdomain name? Date: Sat, 22 Apr 2017 00:00:28 -0700
Quoting Michael Paoli (Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu):
So ... what'cha all think?
temp.balug.org
Keep it simple -- and short.
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