From owner-freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 25 18:38:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D19737B401 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:38:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU [128.205.32.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AE04E44013 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 18:38:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kensmith@cse.Buffalo.EDU) Received: from electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (kensmith@localhost [127.0.0.1]) h5Q1cObr025014 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:38:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from kensmith@localhost) by electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h5Q1cNsN025013 for freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 21:38:23 -0400 From: Ken Smith To: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030626013823.GA24444@electra.cse.Buffalo.EDU> 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030626010219.GE68238@isnic.is> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Subject: Re: DRAFT - DNS Admin Guide X-BeenThere: freebsd-hubs@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Distributions Hubs: mail sup ftp List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2003 01:38:26 -0000 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. :-/ > ====================================================================== > > 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 , 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 , however, you can try the FreeBSD mirror > sites mailing lists first. > ====================================================================== > > 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 - From there to here, from here to | kensmith@cse.buffalo.edu there, funny things are everywhere. | - Theodore Geisel |