The IRCD ran by the GIMPNET team has all the configuration files pointing to their specific subdomains, that obviously won't change by just moving the CNAME to an A record. But that's actually expected since we don't run an IRCD server "in house" on the GNOME Infrastructure. (and that could be the only way for 'Your host is $hostname' to match with irc.gnome.org)
I'm not sure if the GIMPNET team will agree to fix their MOTD et all to show the user connected to irc.gnome.org successfully for one main reason: GIMPNET is not only the GNOME IRC Network, but it currently serves many other irc channels not strictly GNOME-related. 2013/5/9 Guilherme de Siqueira Pastore <gpast...@gnome.org> > On Thu, May 09, 2013 at 01:43:45PM +0200, Andrea Veri wrote: > > The current DNS entry is setup as a CNAME, that means connecting to > > irc.gnome.org will redirect your client to irc.gimp.org. The idea here > is > > to switch the DNS entry for irc.gnome.org to be an A record pointing to > the > > irc.gimp.org's IP and listing the new entry (irc.gnome.org) as the > official > > place contributors should connect to. > > > > That said, any of the irc.*.gimp.* entries will remain as it is (really > > there's no need to update / delete the relevant entry for the solely > reason > > that GIMPNET doesn't host only GNOME channels, we can't define GIMPNET as > > the *Official* GNOME network as of now), what will change is how the DNS > > record for the irc.gnome.org subdomain will look like, from a CNAME > (plain > > DNS redirect) to an A record. > > Then, with all due respect, I am not sure the proposed solution > sufficiently > addresses the initial concern (or which I was also originally not aware, > not > being a native speaker of English myself). > > IRC servers provide the server name in the 004 message upon connection and > in > the 351 reply to the VERSION command. They also (commonly) inform the > network > name in the de facto standard 005 numeric. > > That is the case for GIMPNet. Please note that, in the (stripped) > transcript > below, I specifically informed the server that I was trying to connect to > irc.gnome.org (third argument to the USER command): > > gpastore@neodymium:~$ telnet irc.gnome.org 6667 > Trying 82.99.16.155... > Connected to irc.gimp.org. > Escape character is '^]'. > NICK fatalerror > USER gpastore neodymium.pastore.eng.br irc.gnome.org :Guilherme Pastore > :irc.eagle.y.se 001 fatalerror :Welcome to the Internet Relay Network > fatalerror > :irc.eagle.y.se 002 fatalerror :Your host is irc.eagle.y.se[ > irc.eagle.y.se/6667], running version 2.8/gimpnet-0.1beta3 > :irc.eagle.y.se 004 fatalerror irc.eagle.y.se 2.8/gimpnet-0.1beta3 > oOiwszcrkfydnxb biklmnopstve > :irc.eagle.y.se 005 fatalerror WALLCHOPS PREFIX=(ov)@+ CHANTYPES=#& > MAXCHANNELS=20 MAXBANS=50 NICKLEN=39 TOPICLEN=500 KICKLEN=90 > NETWORK=GIMPNet CHANMODES=be,k,l,imnpst EXCEPTS MODES=4 :are supported by > this server > VERSION > :irc.eagle.y.se 351 fatalerror 2.8/gimpnet-0.1beta3(20020217_2). > irc.eagle.y.se :ACeGHiMpZ TS5ow > :irc.eagle.y.se 005 fatalerror WALLCHOPS PREFIX=(ov)@+ CHANTYPES=#& > MAXCHANNELS=20 MAXBANS=50 NICKLEN=39 TOPICLEN=500 KICKLEN=90 > NETWORK=GIMPNet CHANMODES=be,k,l,imnpst EXCEPTS MODES=4 :are supported by > this server > > This is what all IRC clients I know will show and, as a consequence, what > the > user will see: GIMPNet - irc.eagle.y.se, as informed by the server, and > not > irc.gnome.org, solely because it is an A instead of CNAME DNS record. > > Just my two cents. > > Kind regards, > > Guilherme > > -- Cheers, Andrea Debian Developer, Fedora / EPEL packager, GNOME Sysadmin, GNOME Foundation Membership & Elections Committee Chairman Homepage: http://www.gnome.org/~av
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