[SAC] Openlayers DNS issue

[christopher.schmidt at nokia.com]

So, what happened:

 1. Apparently, the migration of OpenLayers from my personal everydns acocunt
    (where I moved it after the MetaCarta switch) to OSGeo didn't actually
    happen like I thought it had.
 2. EveryDNS has been planning migrations to DynDNS, and apparently starting 
    today, was forcing them by intentional planned downtime (that I wasn't told
    about).
 3. At 11am, it went down because of this.

At 11:05 I got told it was down (I was in meetings since then, which is why I haven't
mentioned anything since then). I went through Dyns' DNS migration plan, but that 
doesn't actually work instantly, it takes a couple hours to take effect. At the
same time, I edited the PairNIC DNS information to OL to point to the new 
Dyn servers.

So:
 1. It shouldn't break again tomorrow during the next 'planned migration outage'.
 2. We should get it out of my personal acocunt as soon as possible: I'll send an
    additional email later today about the hosts we need to configure.
 3. I am sorry that this happened, because I Thought we had done this migratino before.

The biggest problem with doing the migration is, I believe, that when you flip the
switch on pairnic from "host remotely" (what is is now) to 'host locally', it uses
the 'non-configured' state for all of the hostnames for the next 4 hours, which
means that OL.org would essentially be down for those for hours (potentially),
as well as all of the sub-sites of OL.org.

At this point, that cost is lower than getting screwed over continuously because
I'm a terrible sysadmin, so we should do our best to make this change as soon
as possible while inconveniencing as few as possible.

Again, my apologies: I really thought we had migrated all of this stuff out of my
personal accounts, but apparently not.

And sorry as well for not documenting this until now; I got a frantic IM to fix it,
and did what I could in the meantime, but just now got the chance to write it up.

-- Chris

On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:46 PM, ext Alex Mandel wrote:

> Seems to be working again(on it's own), for now.
> Looking at the everydns webpage it's appears that some action will be
> necessary on our part though. There's a notice about them switching all
> their services over to a different host (dyndns which own everydns) and
> that it requires us to migrate the account.
> http://www.everydns.com/
> 
> The deadline is in 13 hours (before the start of Aug 31st). Did anyone
> get a notice about this?
> 
> So urgency has dropped some, but we should come up with a plan in the
> event that Chris isn't reachable in the next 12 hours.
> 
> Thanks,
> Alex
> 
> 
> On 08/30/2011 10:20 AM, Howard Butler wrote:
>> Alex,
>> 
>> It appears that openlayers.{com|net|org} is available to manage via OSGeo's pairNIC account, but I am hesitant to just flip the DNS management over to pairNIC. I'm sure there are a bunch of aliases and this DNS doesn't allow transfers to allow us to see what all is there.
>> 
>> Chris?
>> 
>> Howard
>> 
>> On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:33 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
>> 
>>> Something seems to be amiss with openlayers.org DNS right now.
>>> 
>>> It appears to be pointing to:
>>> 216.146.38.113
>>> lock-everydns.dyndns.com
>>> 
>>> As noted on IRC
>>> message from http://www.everydns.net: "You must migrate your
>>> EveryDNS.net account to our rock-solid DynDNS.com system before August
>>> 31, 2011, or your site will no longer be accessible!"
>>> 
>>> Reported as early as 7:30 PST (so 2 hours ago).
>>> 
>>> Not sure who has the keys or where to go to fix this - or even what the
>>> problem is.
>>> 
>>> Real location should be projects.osgeo.osuosl.org 140.211.15.75 afaik
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> Alex
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>> 
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