[SAC] Openlayers DNS issue

[Tyler Mitchell]

Awesome, thanks a lot Chris!  It's not clear to me what needs to happen next, but if I can help wrap it up somehow, let me know.  

Tyler

On 2011-08-30, at 11:07 AM, christopher.schmidt at nokia.com wrote:

> 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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