Hi Doug, please tell him to have the previous organizers send me their OK to pass on the subdomain and to provide a new CNAME alias. The subdomain fi.pycon.org is currently aliased to conference.syneus.fi.
Thanks. Doug Hellmann wrote: > I have received a request to update the DNS entries for fi.pycon.org. I can > handle the technical aspects of that change, but wanted to make sure I was > doing enough to verify the identity of the person asking for the change. Do > we have procedures for this sort of thing? I have suggested creating a page > on the old server with a name that doesn't exist right now. Is there > something else I can/should do? (Or can anyone vouch for Jyrki and let us > skip this step?) > > Thanks, > Doug > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Jyrki Pulliainen <[email protected]> >> Date: August 2, 2011 3:17:14 PM EDT >> To: Doug Hellmann <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Migrating fi.pycon.org under App engine >> >> On Tue, Aug 2, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Doug Hellmann <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> On Aug 2, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Jyrki Pulliainen wrote: >>> >>>> Hi! >>>> >>>> As mentioned to ThePSF in Twitter before, we're in process migrating >>>> fi.pycon.org under Google Apps domain. We need a few DNS changes to do >>>> it. First, we would need the TXT-entry to verify our domain to Google >>>> and then, later on, the DNS entries should be set to point in to the >>>> App engine. >>>> >>>> How should we proceed? What would be the most convenient way for you? >>>> >>>> Sincerely, >>>> Jyrki Pulliainen, Treasury of Python Finland >>> >>> Hi, Jyrki, >>> >>> I can help you make the DNS changes, but I don't know anything about >>> AppEngine. If you can provide me with instructions like "Make the $R record >>> for the domain $D have value $V" then I can do the editing. >>> >>> Will that work? >> >> Hi! >> >> Yeah, that'll do the trick. I can tell you the required fields :) >> >>> Since I don't know you (yet!), we should also do some minimal verification >>> that you have control of the current fi.pycon.org site. Can you create a >>> "doug.html" page and add some content? It does not need to be fancy, it >>> will just prove that you can create a new page on that domain and reassure >>> me that I'm not about to steal it away from the "real" owner. :-) >> >> I totally understand! I just need to contact the previous owner and >> ask them to put the document there (last year's Python was organized >> by a local company, they handed all the domain, twitter and facebook >> stuff to us now for this year's event). I'll contact you when it's >> done, if it's ok? >> >> Cheers, >> Jyrki > > _______________________________________________ > pydotorg-www mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www -- Marc-Andre Lemburg eGenix.com Professional Python Services directly from the Source (#1, Aug 02 2011) >>> Python/Zope Consulting and Support ... http://www.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC.Zope.Database.Adapter ... http://zope.egenix.com/ >>> mxODBC, mxDateTime, mxTextTools ... http://python.egenix.com/ ________________________________________________________________________ ::: Try our new mxODBC.Connect Python Database Interface for free ! :::: eGenix.com Software, Skills and Services GmbH Pastor-Loeh-Str.48 D-40764 Langenfeld, Germany. CEO Dipl.-Math. Marc-Andre Lemburg Registered at Amtsgericht Duesseldorf: HRB 46611 http://www.egenix.com/company/contact/ _______________________________________________ pydotorg-www mailing list [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pydotorg-www
