From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Aug 23 20:19:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from netplex.com.au (adsl-63-207-30-186.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [63.207.30.186]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D49B37B422; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from netplex.com.au (peter@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by netplex.com.au (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e7O3JfG68289; Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:19:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <200008240319.e7O3JfG68289@netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Gregory Sutter Cc: Bill Paul , "Nicole Harrington." , freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, unfurl@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIngering freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <20000822160510.A46002@klapaucius.zer0.org> Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:19:41 -0700 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Gregory Sutter wrote: > On 2000-08-22 10:00 -0700, Bill Paul wrote: > > > > > > Before I was able to finger a user at freebsd.org see if they > > > were on etc. Now it seems that freebsd.org no longer has an IP and > > > people.freebsd.org does not allow fingering. Will this be allowed > > > again? > > > > The freebsd.org machines were moved recently to a new location at > > Yahoo, and their DNS entries were updated. One change is that freebsd.org > > is now just an MX record, where previously it was an alias for hub. > > If you finger username@hub.freebsd.org, it should work as before. > > Is this happenstance or is it policy? It was a quick hack to fix the problem of getting the automatic scripts that dynamically generate the reverse maps to work by removing the ambiguous A record. The way it was to start with, 216.136.204.18 was being reverse mapped into 'freebsd.org' rather than 'hub.freebsd.org'. I will fix this tomorrow once I have gathered the courage to edit the scripts that do this magic and special-case it. > Greg Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm - peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; peter@netplex.com.au "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message