Re: gnomejournal.org

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Ross Golder wrote:

>On อา., 2005-07-03 at 20:50 +0200, Claus Schwarm wrote:
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>
>>Hi!
>>
>>I noticed that http://gnomejournal.org still delivers the page
>>'Gnome.org is being moved'. I have no idea what's wrong here, being
>>rather new to the journal.
>>
>>I don't know if this list is correct for such requests, but can anybody
>>please fix this? Please?
>>
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>
>Yep, this is the right place. Let's see...
>
>$ host gnomejournal.org
>gnomejournal.org has address 12.107.209.247
>$ host 12.107.209.247
>247.209.107.12.in-addr.arpa domain name pointer window.gnome.org.
>$ host window.gnome.org
>window.gnome.org has address 209.132.176.176
>
>Aha. DNS is out-of-date.
>
>$ whois gnomejournal.org
>...
>Tech Name:Jorge Castro
>Tech Email:jorge castro2 us army mil
>Name Server:NS1.EASYDNS.COM
>...
>
>Jorge, we recently moved the gnome.org servers to a new colo facility,
>and they've got new IP addresses. gnomejournal.org is still pointing at
>the old IP address. Please update your DNS accordingly.
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>
If you are changing the DNS, it might be worth using a CNAME instead of
an A record, so that you don't need to update DNS if the IP addresses
change in the future -- instead you'd be dependent on the DNS names.

James.