[Lubuntu-desktop] Fwd: End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook and ARM - 2011/10/29

[Phill Whiteside]

Hi guys,

does this affect our backporting of stuff to the 10.04 release?

Thanks,

Phill.

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From: Kate Stewart 
Date: Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 12:31 AM
Subject: End of support for Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Netbook and ARM -
2011/10/29
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Ubuntu announced the 10.04 Netbook Edition and Ubuntu for ARM products
18 months ago, on April 29, 2010.   At that time, Ubuntu committed to
ongoing security and critical fixes for a period of 18 months for these
specific products.

This support period is now ending, and on October 29, 2011 the 10.04
Netbook Edition and Ubuntu for ARM products will no longer be supported.
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Desktop and Server products continue to be supported.

The upgrade path from Ubuntu 10.04 Netbook and ARM is to Ubuntu 10.10.
Instructions and caveats for the upgrade may be found at
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MaverickUpgrades.

Ubuntu 10.04 LTS for Desktop and Server products continues to be
actively supported with security updates and select high-impact bug
fixes. All announcements of official security updates for Ubuntu
releases are sent to the ubuntu-security-announce mailing list,
information about which may be found at
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-security-announce.

Since its launch in October 2004 Ubuntu has become one of the most
highly regarded Linux distributions with millions of users in homes,
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Kate Stewart,
Ubuntu Release Manager


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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] New member, Michael Rawson

[Phill Whiteside]

Welcome to the little part of the world we call madness, enjoy yourself and
get to know us all at the two IRC areas.

Regards,

Phillw

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 2:33 AM, Michael Rawson
wrote:

> Hi guys!
>
> I'm a new member, recruited by amjjawad (you probably know him!).
>
> Just like to say hello, and what a great new interface you have. (hey,
> graphic designers, good job there!)
>
> Wiki page with contact details and things here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**
> MichaelRawson . Hope to help
> shortly, I have modest coding and packaging skills and like writing
> documentation.
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Lubuntu-desktop] DNS troubleshooting basics (was: www.lxde.org is down!)

[Phill Whiteside]

Or, of course, we could always choose to use a decent DNS provider!

I do not mind paying the 15 bucks per year to pop it onto the provider I
use.

Regards,

Phill.

On Sat, Oct 29, 2011 at 9:36 AM, Jonathan Marsden wrote:

> On 10/25/2011 03:36 PM, Ali Linx wrote:
>
> > Network Error (dns_server_failure)
> >
> >   Your request could not be processed because an error occurred
> contacting
> > the DNS server.  ...
>
>
> Here is how to troubleshoot this kind of issue:
>
> (1) Use dig +nssearch to find out the nameservers for the domain:
>
>  dig lxde.org +nssearch
>
> This should return information on the reachability of each registered
> nameserver for the domain, and the DNS serial number of the information
> it contains.  Unfortunately, for lxde.org, I get currently "connection
> timed out; no servers could be reached", which indicates a significant
> problem.  To see what kind of information you get when things are
> working correctly, try
>
>  dig lubuntu.net +nssearch
>
> (1B) Since that lookup for lxde.org totally failed (!), use whois to
> determine what the listed nameservers for the domain are, instead:
>
>  whois lxde.org
>
> This returns a bunch of information, including:
>
>  Name Server:LINUX3.CC.NTU.EDU.TW
>  Name Server:NS1.XINH.ORG
>  Name Server:NS2.XINH.ORG
>  Name Server:DNS.LXDE.ORG
>
> So, now we know the four authoritative nameservers for lxde.org,
> according to whois. (Note: when changes are being made, whois
> information can be up to 24 hours behind reality; if nameserver
> information from dig +nssearch and whois is different, info from dig is
> much more likely to be correct).
>
> (2) Check each of the authoritative nameservers in turn, to see if they
> are working, and whether they return the correct (expected) result for
> the site you are trying to access:
>
>  dig @linux3.cc.ntu.edu.tw www.lxde.org.
>
> That gets me a SERVFAIL response and no A record.  Strike one!
>
>  dig @ns1.xinh.org www.lxde.org.
>
> That gets me a "connection timed out; no servers could be reached".
> Strike two!
>
>  dig @ns2.xinh.org www.lxde.org.
>
> That also gets me a "connection timed out; no servers could be reached".
>  Strike three!
>
>  dig @dns.lxde.org  www.lxde.org.
>
> This gets me a "dig: couldn't get address for 'dns.lxde.org': not found".
>
> None of the specified authoritative DNS servers for the lxde.org zone
> are working.  In case it is not obvious: this is really bad and needs
> fixing.
>
> (3) Fortunately, some cached DNS information does still exist out there,
> on other public DNS servers, for example
>
>  dig @8.8.8.8 www.lxde.org.
>
> returns an CNAME and A record:
>
>  www.lxde.org.  47028   IN  CNAME   start.lxde.org.
>  start.lxde.org.47028   IN  A   210.240.39.201
>
> This info looks like it will expire in 47028 seconds, which is about 13
> hours... unless the Google DNS server (8.8.8.8) has better connectivity
> to the official DNS servers for lxde.org than I have.
>
> BOTTOM LINE:
>
> At least for now, anyone using Google's public DNS servers will still be
> able to access www.lxde.org.  Anyone using their own caching DNS server
> that does not yet have lxde.org information cached in it, or using their
> ISPs DNS server that does not yet have lxde.org information cached in
> it, will *not* be able to look up the IP address for www.lxde.org and so
> will be unable to browse to that site.
>
> POSSIBLE FIXES:
>
> If it would be useful, I would be happy to run DNS for lxde.org on one
> or two small DNS servers under my control, at no cost.  They run DNS for
> only a couple of hundred domains or so, and so far are a lot more
> reliable than the current lxde.org DNS servers seem to be :)  Currently
> they each run a different version of BSD, and are completely independent
> in terms of power and network connectivity (they are located on opposite
> coasts of the USA).
>
> I vaguely remember offering this once before, and there was some reason
> why it didn't make sense to do it...?
>
> Jonathan
>
> PS.  Just for fun: note that even the mighty Google can't work around
> completely broken or missing information:
>
>  dig @8.8.8.8 dns.lxde.org
>
> returns a SERVFAIL, and does not return an A record.  Looking up
> start.lxde.org in the same way fails similarly.
>
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