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@cal.berkeley.edu ----- Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2016 08:12:12 -0800 From: "Michael Paoli" Michael.Paoli@cal.berkeley.edu Subject: Re: balug.org Dreamhost.com account from suspended to unsuspended - site coming back To: "Michael Hubbard" michael.hubbard@gmail.com Cc: "Jim Stockford" jim@well.com, "Rick Moen" rick@linuxmafia.com
[BCC: acohen36@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@gmail.com Subject: Re: balug.org Dreamhost.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@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@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@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@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@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 :
Server not found <My browser> can't find the server at www.balug.org.
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