Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:38:23 -0400 From: Ken Smith <kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU> To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DRAFT - DNS Admin Guide Message-ID: <20030626013823.GA24444@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> In-Reply-To: <20030626010219.GE68238@isnic.is> References: <3EF9A5FD.22140.3F8EC95E@localhost> <3EF9F650.2909.40C896BC@localhost> <20030625233455.GA22339@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20030625234433.GB22339@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> <20030626010219.GE68238@isnic.is>
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 01:02:19AM +0000, Olafur Osvaldsson wrote:
> I can't help thinking you are making a simple thing much to complex...
It wouldn't be the first time. :-/
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>
> Get the mirror running in first place (maybe not using a master site, yet).
>
> Subscribe to the FreeBSD mirror sites mailing lists.
>
> If everything works so far, contact the DNS admin, responsible for your
> region/country, and ask for a DNS entry for your site. The admin should
> able to be contacted via <hostmaster@cc.FreeBSD.org>, which cc being your
> country code/TLD again. Your DNS entry will look like described in Section
> 3.1.
>
> If there is no subdomain delegated, yet, for your country, you probably need
> to contact <hostmaster@FreeBSD.org>, however, you can try the FreeBSD mirror
> sites mailing lists first.
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>
> There it tells ppl who to contact to add their mirror, be it ftp, cvups or www
>
> My understaning is that most of the problems have been while someone is trying
> to contact dnsadm@, wich should be much better if all CC zone admins would sign
> their requests.
I don't quite follow how having cc zone admins sign requests helps at
all but that is, again, probably out of ignorance on my part.
I'm a new site, lets say in Canada. Following the above I send mail
to hostmaster@ca.freebsd.org. They add me as ftp15.ca.freebsd.org,
no email needed to be sent from the hostmaster@ca folks at all.
The question I have is whether the hostmaster@ca folks should be the
ones who make the decision to do the addition or if there is someone
else they should contact (or if someone else - e.g. a "Mirror Coordinator"
should be making the request that the site be added in the first place).
At what stage do they request access to ftp-master? Do they automatically
get it? Is having some form of a blessed connection (so they can have
the releases at the point they're staged instead of needing to wait
until the permissions get opened) a pre-condition to having an official
DNS connection. If later when ftp15.ca is found to not be carrying
FreeBSD any more and the hostmaster@ca folks remove it is Jun ever
notified so he removes them from the ftp-master.ca ACL?
If the answer to all that is "We don't care" I (or if you are totally
sick of me by now someone else) can begin to piece that scenario together.
To follow Jun's remark if it is me assembling it I can do it in smaller
pieces if someone suggests which part to start with (just starting
with the above quoted remark might work).
--
Ken Smith
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