[Balug-admin] I'd like to help

[Michael Hubbard]

Xavier wrote:

> Rick Moen wrote:
>
>> Quoting Michael Paoli (mp@rawbw.com):
>>
>>> balug-talk-balug.org@lists.balug.org
>>> is rather long, not-so-user-friendly and relatively redundant e-mail 
>>> address
>>> for a BALUG talk list)
>>
>>
>> I'd maintain that the "lists.balug.org" part is good, and is what should
>> have been done originally.  That is, one should ideally use "role" CNAME
>> records (or A records, where SMTP is involved) for each distinct major
>> public function that a host will serve.  This level of indirect
>> addressing lets you reassign individual roles when necessary to 
>> different underlying hosts, smoothly transitioning them just by 
>> editing DNS
>> records (and then waiting a while for caches to time out).
>
>
> Further, with decent control over DNS, the timeouts can be decreased a
> day or two before the transition, which would nearly make future
> transitions smooth.
>
Somehow you don't understand what a "hosting provider" actually 
provides.  They usually only offer simplified control over things like DNS.