The big DNS day
Today was the day that Tuesday was not.
I’m very happy to have finally stopped tall (our legacy server) from handling any critical CompSoc services. These were basically mail and websites; noisy has been handling CompSoc DNS for about nine months now.
Things did not go without any problems though; somehow, due to a miscommunication, all of the Manchester University society domains have mx0.compsoc.man.ac.uk set as their primary mail exchange. In English, this means that currently every society in Manchester University is currently unable to receive email as it is being delivered to CompSoc. From our point of view, we quickly fixed the matter by simply deferring mail for unknown domains; this simply means that we sent it back to Manchester Computing for them to attempt redelivery at a later date.
So, the end result is that noisy handles DNS, websites and remote logins and bump handles all email and mailing lists. The changeover went surprisingly well and I’m unbelievably happy about that. A day well spent.
There are still a few things to tie up but with tall relegated to doing… well, not a lot, I’m much happier. Now, if we can get this 4TB StorageTek tape library and 290GB RAID5 array online CompSoc will be looking like the society it really needs to be!
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