Re: Proposal: DNS change irc.gnome.org becomes A record and irc.gimpnet.org starts getting phased out.

[Nirbheek Chauhan <nirbheek chauhan gmail com>]

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Andrea Veri <av gnome org> wrote:
> That said, any of the irc.*.gimp.* entries will remain as it is (really there's no need to update / delete 
> the relevant entry for the solely reason that GIMPNET doesn't host only GNOME channels, we can't define 
> GIMPNET as the *Official* GNOME network as of now), what will change is how the DNS record for the 
> irc.gnome.org subdomain will look like, from a CNAME (plain DNS redirect) to an A record.

Thanks for clarifying this, Andrea! I was concerned that the old
irc.*.gimp.* entries would be removed and would cause old clients to
break. Since that's not happening, this DNS change has no downsides.

Cheers,

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~Nirbheek Chauhan