Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 06:06:00 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: undisclosed-recipients:; Subject: Site maintainers for subdomains under freebsd.org - please read! Message-ID: <824.845039160.1@time.cdrom.com>
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------- =_aaaaaaaaaa Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Description: Original Message To: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Site maintainers for subdomains under freebsd.org - please read! Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 06:06:00 -0700 Message-ID: <824.845039160@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> This is just a periodic reminder that if you're running DNS for one of freebsd.org's international subdomains, you should also be trying to comply with certain standards in order to make the central organization's life easier. Email: You should always have the following email aliases in working order and pointing at the appropriate people: hostmaster The person in charge of DNS so that complaints to hostmaster@<dom>.freebsd.org go somewhere meaningful. www The person in charge of http://www.<dom>.freebsd.org and keeping it up to date. Another good alias for this is "webmaster", and I prefer both "www and webmaster" to work, though I'll settle for just the first. CNAMES: The following CNAMEs should be in place, just to make it easier for us to figure out name server topology when things are broken: ns.<dom>.freebsd.org Your main name server. If you have secondaries, they should be ns2.<dom>.freebsd.org, ns3... and so on. FTP Sites: As noted before, the following URL should always work in reaching the base of the FreeBSD distribution tree: ftp://ftp[n][.domain].freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD That is to say that I should be able to go to: ftp://ftp.nl.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD or ftp://ftp4.de.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD And have it Just Work. I've been pretty lenient about this up to now since sysinstall still doesn't do a regional search for FTP sites automatically, but the day it does is the day that sites not conforming to this convention *will suddenly not be found anymore* and will be removed from the mirror lists as well. This is a very minor request, and something that costs all of one symlink to implement if your trees aren't laid out this way already. WWW sites: http://www.<dom>.freebsd.org/ Should always point to the top of your FreeBSD distribution tree. This doesn't have to be the *same* as the top of http://www.freebsd.org, simply the top of your FreeBSD resources. Some folks, like Brazil, like to point to regional resources as well as the central FreeBSD mirror and this is fine - users seeing a genuine local presence are more likely to feel comfortable with running FreeBSD anyway. Many thanks in advance for your cooperation! In trying to notify many sites that their web mirrors are now seriously out of date, I've found that the hostmaster addresses I've been sending to bounce back 2 times out of 3, hence this mail. Jordan ------- =_aaaaaaaaaa--
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