A day in the life of the CentOS team [LWN.net]

A day in the life of the CentOS team

Posted Mar 26, 2006 17:43 UTC (Sun) by dps (subscriber, #5725)
Parent article: A day in the life of the CentOS team

Not knowing that someone else, and exactly who else, is hosting your website qualifies you as a top class idiot. Given that information, which is presuambly the subject of a contract, you would think those poeple would be the people to contact first. Failure to understand this after 22 years in computer systems is seriously damning.

The rebuilding *should* have included make sure any websites hosted on the box worked again, which is easy if you have a recent backup. If the hosting people did not have a backup, and used it, I would want to know why.

I guess the centOS people made the mistake of assuming the city manager had 1/4 of a clue. Maybe those tech support people that do not know an arp request is would have fared better.

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Neglected domain transfer.

Posted Mar 27, 2006 3:37 UTC (Mon) by xoddam (subscriber, #2322) [Link]

> someone else is hosting your website ...
> presumably the subject of a contract

AFAICS the hosting provider that used to host the website (at
www.cityoftuttle.org) was no longer contracted to do so, and probably
should have transferred the domain.

> you would think those poeple would be the people to contact first

The city manager *did* contact the (ex-)hosting provider (first? No
idea), and they initially denied any responsibility for the website in
question. Which is fair enough, since they weren't *supposed* to be
hosting it any more.

The underlying problem is probably that no-one arranged for a domain
transfer of the .org domain to the town's new provider. The site at
www.tuttle-ok.gov is up and running (on IIS 5.0), the .org address should
probably just redirect there.

Good luck trying to explain that to the uninitiated :-)

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