Comments | xdaemon: ISP Change... unexpectedly

xdaemon

ISP Change... unexpectedly

Dec 29, 2006 22:53

So I posted a bit back about how my company was changing ISPs for stupid reasons. Well, I got pulled from the project because my manager is more of an idiot than I'd thought. Then, we fell *WAY* behind the schedule... which was to turn the old circuit off on 12/31/2006. He pushed that back to 1/15/2007. The ISP didn't bother to tell their ( Read more... )

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zaydia December 30 2006, 03:57:06 UTC

That sucks. I'm sorry! If you want to go out for a drink when things chill out, let me know!

tomatoe333 December 30 2006, 04:55:47 UTC

Hey you!

zaydia December 30 2006, 18:27:28 UTC

hi! :) I added you.

actionjbone December 30 2006, 04:29:09 UTC

I make my usual offer of an inconspicuous back yard in which to bury the bodies.

actionjbone December 30 2006, 04:30:03 UTC

Weird. My first comment never appeared, even after refreshes. Then my website came back up. Then I posted something different, and both comments appeared.

tomatoe333 December 30 2006, 04:50:53 UTC

I was wondering what happened today at noon or so...

Shoot me an email at (lj username at gmail dot com) if you need a hand.
And if nothing else, let me know the new IP for squash, and I'll get it set up.

xdaemon December 30 2006, 04:57:33 UTC

I left the IP info stuck on squash. It's 72.0.136.252/26, .254 is the way IN, .193 is the way OUT.

tomatoe333 December 30 2006, 05:04:09 UTC

Thanks, I'll get it set up tomorrow.

BTW, looks like DNS has propagated enough that I can get to webmail at the office.

ouch n2mlq December 30 2006, 05:21:16 UTC

at least when I had to move netbusters last, i had over a week to do it. need backup dns or mx?

alex

Re: ouch xdaemon December 30 2006, 05:33:27 UTC

All set on the secondaries, the problem was even they were out in the weeds until I broke in to them and fixed IP ranges that were permitted. Thanks, though.

sfrose December 30 2006, 05:28:52 UTC

So it seems that having the MX record pointing to iago.ilk.org is what is keeping the mail flowing. Just need to get the A records fixed for the web interface.

Seth suggested just asking the CNAME for the subdomains to point ti iago.ilk.org and not mention the IP at all. Would that work?

xdaemon December 30 2006, 05:35:05 UTC

I'm not sure how that's working, then. If you have a CNAME in an MX (not supposed to be allowed at all, actually) the mail transfer agent generally canonicalizes the address being sent to... which is totally wrong. Thus, foo@lists.foo.com suddenly is foo@iago.ilk.org and goes to the wrong place. This was a bunch of PITA factor when we were setting up the N4 lists.

The A records could certainly become CNAMES and it's all good.

sfrose December 30 2006, 05:48:23 UTC

I didn't want to bother you with another phone call when you were still trying to get everything working, so I asked OLM to point the A records to the new IP. But I can try asking them to be CNAMES. I just worry about the level of clueness from those that I'll have to deal with on the holiday weekend.