Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 20:19:41 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: Gregory Sutter <gsutter@zer0.org> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>, "Nicole Harrington." <nicole@unixgirl.com>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, unfurl@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FIngering freebsd.org Message-ID: <200008240319.e7O3JfG68289@netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20000822160510.A46002@klapaucius.zer0.org>
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Gregory Sutter wrote: > On 2000-08-22 10:00 -0700, Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG> 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
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