Justin S. Leitgeb wrote:
> There are two ways in which Adam's comment about the "local resolution" 
> can be interpreted.  First, mire and deleuze should probably be 
> configured as "caching nameservers," 

Yup, that's what I meant.  No special cases for hcoop.net mappings.

> If you're really uneasy about doing this, and no one else wants the job, 
> I wouldn't mind coming back as an admin in a limited capacity, perhaps 
> as a "name resolution admin."

I have a feeling you'd need root access to do this, and every extra 
person with root access is a liability, so I'd rather have a less 
experienced person among the current admins in charge.

> Related to this, I wrote a quick program 
> before that would parse the old domtool text files and tell users about 
> where possible errors were that would result in a crippled DNS setup for 
> their domains.  I'd like to adopt this to the domtool2 program and make 
> it available if there is any interest.
>   

I hope that Domtool 2 will encourage people to use a standard library of 
abstractions to a great enough extent that non-expert users won't be 
writing any of the code that your tool checks, and experts might want to 
do unusual enough things that your tool would think something was wrong 
when everything was fine.

> Finally, I just looked at the wiki pages and didn't see any mention of 
> monitoring tools being set up for service reliability.  When I signed up 
> as a volunteer admin before, I mentioned that I would be interested in 
> setting up nagios to monitor critical areas of the network.  Is anyone 
> willing to take this on?

I think, at the least, this is something that we would start doing 
concurrently with migrating a few initial members, rather than adding it 
to our list of things blocking migration.  I'm very much in favor of it, 
and it has the nice property of being doable without root privileges, so 
perhaps you'll get your wish of being assigned the task! :D

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