[SAC] Openlayers DNS issue

Tue Aug 30 14:35:28 EDT 2011

I think the next step is:

 1. Tonight, i post to SAC what the hostnames we need to setup are
 2. We come up with a time to make the switch (probably a weekend
    evening, and I can make it)
 3. We make it clear that there will be downtime
 4. We make the switch :)

I'll followup with more later tonight.

-- Chris

On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:13 PM, ext Tyler Mitchell wrote:

> 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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>>>> 
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