[sf-lug] (forw) SF-LUG pages

[Grant Bowman]

The website for sf-lug.org still shows a directory listing. Despite this
many people currently give out this address. In my opinion this is a big
problem. The sf-lug.com website seems to serve correctly.

Ken wrote a great script. Rick and I agree this needs fixing. Who can help
get this done?

As visitors from all over the world will be attending uds.ubuntu.com next
week, May 7-11, 2012 it makes a lot of sense this gets fixed sooner than
later.

Grant
 On Jan 19, 2012 5:52 PM, "jim" <jim at well.com> wrote:

>
>
>    More thanks, Rick. I'll attack this within the
> next few days and report progress (or its lack).
>
>
>
> On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 17:11 -0800, Rick Moen wrote:
> > Quoting jim (jim at systemateka.com):
> >
> > >     I guess I'll have to move the sf-lug.org web
> > > site to a new host and repoint the domain name.
> > > The current host system is not under my control.
> >
> >
> >
> > Sorry to hear about that.  It's a bit of a pain in the neck, when that
> > happens.
> >
> > Let's see where hte autoritative DNS is:
> >
> > $ whois sf-lug.org | grep 'Name Server'
> > Name Server:NS41.WORLDNIC.COM
> > Name Server:NS42.WORLDNIC.COM
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > Name Server:
> > $
> >
> > POINT1:  Whoever controls the LUG's domain has elected to have only two
> > nameservers.  This is a serious mistake.  It makes your domain fragile.
> > RFC recommendation is minimum 3, maximum 7 authoritative nameservers.
> >
> > POINT2:  It's disapointing that SF-LUG has completely outsourced DNS
> > and isn't even running its master nameserver.  It's not difficult, and I
> > can handhold you to get you going.
> >
> > Let's check where the master serivce is, and verify that the two servers
> > are at least serving the same zonefile S/N:
> >
> > $ dig -t soa sf-lug.org. @NS41.WORLDNIC.COM. +short
> > NS41.WORLDNIC.COM. namehost.WORLDNIC.COM. 111062022 10800 3600 604800
> 3600
> > $ dig -t soa sf-lug.org. @NS42.WORLDNIC.COM. +short
> > NS41.WORLDNIC.COM. namehost.WORLDNIC.COM. 111062022 10800 3600 604800
> 3600
> > $
> >
> > Good:  They are serving the same S/N (sufficient proof that they're
> > providing the same version of the data), and the master copy's claimed
> > to be the one at NS41.WORLDNIC.COM.
> >
> >
> > POINT3:  Contact names/mailboxes in sf-lug.org's public domain records
> > are a total train wreck -- completely broken.
> >
> > The public 'whois' records are the official method for reaching domain
> > officials and owners, e.g., to say 'Dude, your DNS is broken' or many
> > other things -- including warning notices about upcoming domain
> > expirations.  The sf-lug.org domain is (wisely) registered out to the
> > middle of next year, so it's not going to expire soon, but it's a very
> > bad idea for lots of other reasons to have your public contact
> > information be broken.
> >
> > Public points of contact are:  Registrant, Admin Contact, Technical
> > Contact.  SF-LUG's domain data _fail_ to specify a named person for any
> > of those roles, and (worse) shows 'no.valid.email at worldnic.com' as the
> > contact mailbox for all three roles.
> >
> > These are serious problems.
> >
> >
> >
> > FYI, I continue to offer SF-LUG and similar groups slave (secondary) DNS
> > nameservice at two highly reliable nameservers over which I have
> > administrative control:
> >
> > NS1.LINUXMAFIA.COM   IP address 198.144.195.186
> > NS1.SVLUG.ORG        IP address 64.62.190.98
> >
> > Groups wishing to take up that offer should make sure my IPs are
> > permitted to do AXFR/IXFR zone transfer requests of your zone(s), then
> > tell me you'd like me to do slave nameservice (and for what zones,
> > served by what master nameserver IPs).  I will let you know when that's
> > set up and tested, and you _then_ add my nameservers to the
> > authoritative list in your domain, plus add 'NS' lines pointing to them
> > in your zonefile.  (Don't try to do the above in a different order, or
> > you may break your DNS and waste your time.)
> >
> >
> >
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> > Information about SF-LUG is at http://www.sf-lug.org/
>
>
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