[volunteers] qualified success installing new server

Paul Reiber reiber at gmail.com
Wed Dec 13 23:10:09 PST 2006


> > I'm not able to contact it by hostname - brie.svlug.org
> > - only by IP address.
> That's only because there's no such entry in the svlug.org DNS.  ;->

Yes, of course... Doh! I guess it was a case of tunnel vision.

> Not complaining, but:  You would have been better
> off taking it with you [...]

We were under a bit of a time constraint, so I decided not
to remove it.  We'd have had to not only remove it, but relocate the
shelf below it up a few U.  More than I wanted
to attempt today.  Besides that, I was getting really tired of seeing
it in my bedroom every day. :-)

> We _could_ also put brie.svlug.org and gruyere.svlug.org
> into the svlug.org zonefile -- the way somebody did with
> svlug.svlug.org (the current production host) -- but that's
> really a bit pointless.

Yes it's mostly pointless... but, for right now, brie doesn't really
_have_ any roles yet... so what other name would we give it?  www2?
lists2?  Yuck...

Come to think of it, there _is_ one reason we might want the
cheese-names in the DNS as well as the role-names - if/when we do
start moving roles around, it'll be handy to be able to guarantee
which machine we're ssh-ing to.  I.e. for the purposes of DNS for most
of the world, the cheese-names aren't useful... but for
administration, they could be.

I'm excited!  Next I'm planning on reading up on fastCGI and MoinMoin
in hopes of helping us over that hurdle.

Best regards,
-Paul



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