Re: pgbuildfarm.org domain expired

On 10/31/2018 01:58 PM, Stephen Frost wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> * Stephen Frost (sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net) wrote:
>> * Andrew Dunstan (andrew(dot)dunstan(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com) wrote:
>>> On 10/25/2018 12:06 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>>>> On 10/25/18 7:54 AM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>>>> On 10/25/2018 10:47 AM, Michael Banck wrote:
>>>>>> not sure this is the best place to report this, but it seems the
>>>>>> pgbuildfarm.org domain has expired as of now. That leaves quite a few
>>>>>> dead links on e.g. wiki here:
>>>>>> https://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/PostgreSQ
>>>>>> L_Buildfarm_Howto
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is this something that was expected (maybe as part of a move to
>>>>>> buildfarm.postgresql.org?)?
>>>>> Josh Drake, did you let this expire? It shouldn't do. If you don't want
>>>>> to maintain it please assign it to the community or to me.
>>>> Sorry just saw this. Yes I let it expire. I didn't think we needed it
>>>> anymore because we have been using the postgresql.org domain for years. I
>>>> can get it renewed.
>>> There are still places with URLs that refer to it in newsgroup archives,
>>> mailing lists and the like, so we'll need to CNAME pointer indefinitely.
>> Having it immediately renewed is good but it's pretty clear that this
>> domain should be migrated under PGCAC to be maintained with the
>> postgresql.org and other community domains and run off of the
>> postgresql.org name servers.
>>
>> I'm happy to work to implement the domain on the postgresql.org name
>> servers so that when the registration transfer is done everything is
>> smoothly transistioned.
>>
>> Christopher, Joshua, please let me know the timing of that transistion,
>> so that the postgresql.org nameservers have the up-to-date and correct
>> information for the domain. If there are any additional records beyond
>> the obvious ones, please let me know, so that they can be included.
> Note also that the current DNS records on buildfarm.org are incorrect:
>
> ➜ ~ host www.pgbuildfarm.org
> www.pgbuildfarm.org is an alias for brentalia.postgresql.org.
> brentalia.postgresql.org has address 72.32.157.217
> brentalia.postgresql.org has IPv6 address 2001:4800:3e1:1::217
>
> www.pgbuildfarm.org is correct since it's just a CNAME to brentalia, but
> pgbuildfarm.org itself is *not* correct and points to outdated IPs:
>
> ➜ ~ host pgbuildfarm.org
> pgbuildfarm.org has address 174.143.35.217
> pgbuildfarm.org has IPv6 address 2001:4800:1501:1::217
> pgbuildfarm.org mail is handled by 10 pgbuildfarm.org.
>
> Further, there really shouldn't be an MX there. brentalia certainly
> doesn't accept inbound SMTP connections, and if we did have
> @pgbuildfarm.org addresses, the MX listed would be for our frontend mail
> servers, which would handle routing the email appropriately to our
> backend list server or mailbox server.
>
> Naturally, this is another reason to have the domain migrated to PGCAC
> and the nameservers handling the domain be the postgresql.org ones,
> since we do have to handle migrating servers from time to time (as was
> just recently done), and that includes updating nameservers (which we
> have plans to do as we expand our infrastructure out into the
> Asia/Pacific region).
>

Since JD was prepared to let the domain expire I assume he's equally
prepared to assign it to PGCAC. The you can set it up however you think
best.

cheers

andrew

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