[Planning] New server stuff

[Ron Golan]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 03:54:47AM -0800, Christopher Smith wrote:
> So, for those of you who haven't read your LULA mail yet:
> 
> http://www2.lula.org/pipermail/lula/2006-January/005103.html
> 
> (www.lula.org should work, but www2.lula.org will definitely work)
> 
> For the record, the old host can be reached at old.lula.org.
> 
> Some planning points on this matter:
> 
> 1) The old server is still running DNS. It's set up as a slave of new 
> server.
> 2) The old server has a lot of accounts, DNS secondaries, etc. on it. 
> Basically a lot of cruft. If there is any cruft from the old server that 
> you'd like to see on the new server, now is most definitely the time to 
> speak up and/or do something.
> 3) I think we need to update the whois information. Right now that's 
> still controlled by Clay. I haven't heard back from him about this. 
> Anyone else feel like handling responsibility for this?
> 4) Right now our DNS is through Kenwood's servers, which is kind of 
> strange as it is, because I didn't see anything resembling acl's 
> limiting transfers to their servers...
> 5) We have still not got any spam filtering set up on the server. Based 
> on how much spam I get through lula.org, and how much I saw in the logs 
> on the old machine. I'm tempted to revist this policy. Thoughts?
> 6) We have a lot of list members who have had mail delivery disabled. 
> Probably as many as half our members. Some have had this status for 
> quite some time. I'm wondering if it makes sense to do some "spring 
> cleaning" of the list.
> 7) At some point I want to shut down DNS on the old box. The config 
> isn't super secure, and of course that box is getting a tad flakey in 
> general. So, anyone who's using the box as a secondary should stand up 
> now and do something about it.

I'm using www.lula.org as a secondary and I'd like to continue if
possible. I can set this up myself or if you and Michael prefer, you can
set it up. If we want to change the policy and stop providing that
service, I can find another solution though I'd rather not.

> 8) Right now the old server does not have any smtp daemon running. I 
> think it's been used as a backup MX for mutt.org (possibly others). If 
> so, that configuration needs to be moved to the new server (perhaps 
> after the IP has been changed)... probably sooner rather than later.
> 
> There's probably a few other things I'm forgetting, but I'm tired. ;-)
> 
> --Chris
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