From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 16038 invoked by alias); 13 Jul 2003 14:55:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 16031 invoked from network); 13 Jul 2003 14:55:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO redhat.com) (24.131.133.249) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 13 Jul 2003 14:55:37 -0000 Received: by redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 201) id D61C96C594; Sun, 13 Jul 2003 10:55:36 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 14:55:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Jonathan Larmour Cc: overseers@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Can't ssh into sources Message-ID: <20030713145536.GA12641@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jonathan Larmour , overseers@sources.redhat.com References: <3F116CC1.5020703@jifvik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F116CC1.5020703@jifvik.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SW-Source: 2003-q3/txt/msg00045.txt.bz2 On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 03:29:21PM +0100, Jonathan Larmour wrote: >Gerald Pfeifer wrote: >> >>Works fine for me. Yesterday the box was moved and the IP address >>changed; the latter now needs to propagate through the Internet: >> >> % host -t a gcc.gnu.org >> gcc.gnu.org A 67.72.78.213 >> >>(Your mail servers and possibly http-proxy might have the new address >>already, why your workstation has cached the old one.) > >I'm a bit bemused by what's been going on... firstly why isn't the above a >CNAME? And secondly why weren't the TTLs reduced as is normal practice for >IP address moves? > >Seems like 5 minutes action by one person could have prevented hassles for >many others. (Although I guess the problem is "just" that no-one thought >to inform gnu.org in advance). AFAIK, gnu.org was notified in advance and it sure looks like their ttl was set down. Howeer, I'm sure they would be thrilled to discuss this matter with you if you contacted them directly. I doubt that any sysadmin from gnu.org reads this mailing list. Who knows? They might even be willing to adjust your bill for the inconvenience that you suffered. cgf