Notes from when SpamAssassin zones box died

2017-05-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
So it was only 3 years ago when SpamAssassin Zones died catastrophically and was replaced by spamassassin-vm. We are now replacing spamassassin-vm with sa-vm1. Unfortunately, the box had to be turned off. In the past, there were separate zones boxes because the grinding for masscheck was t

Tasks I can think of...

2017-05-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
I see the priorities as: - Static DNS for SpamAssassin.org back up and running with the private master working and public master-slaves pulling the zone to prove we have control of DNS. - CLOSE - DONE - Get a dedicated sysadmins mailing list. I thought more and it will be public. https:

Onboarding, Documentation, etc.

2017-05-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Dave and Bryan, below is my latest attempt at the how to information for sysadmins. Can one of you please take on incorporating this into the wiki? Apache SpamAssassin SysAdmin How-To NOTE: This was written in April of 2017 to help modernize our system records - Other records: See https://w

Fwd: Re: At a loss re: hyperreal

2017-05-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
Just to bring you all up to speed, I had Brian Behlendorf try and transfer from my BIND server. Same issue: [root@taz4 /etc/tinydns/root]# /usr/local/bin/tcpclient 69.171.29.37 53 /usr/local/bin/axfr-get spamassassin.org spamassassin.org foo.tmp axfr-get: fatal: unable to parse AXFR results:

Re: Intorduction

2017-05-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 5/8/2017 3:36 PM, Bryan Vest wrote: I came into this group with out really an introduction. Hi Brian, we're a small group. You, me and David Jones. I'm open to us voting to add more but I feel good about the group now. But a great idea for an introduction. Quick Intro for me: My name is

Intorduction

2017-05-08 Thread Bryan Vest
I came into this group with out really an introduction. I rarely send email that is not needed. I have been interested in computers/electronics/software since 1986 when I received a Commodore 64 for my birthday and never stopped. I started professionally working with computers in 1994 at a mom and

Re: Fwd: Re: Ready for the Hidden Master to be Polled

2017-05-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 5/8/2017 10:32 AM, Dave Jones wrote: Are you ready to me to add ns2.pccc.com as an NS record on the hidden master? If so, I vote for ns2.pccc.com should replace ns.hyperreal.org. Yes, go ahead and add it as an NS record and add a test record, increment the serial and test. I've setup 62.210

Re: Next priority to get running on sa-vm1.apache.org

2017-05-08 Thread Kevin A. McGrail
On 5/7/2017 3:43 PM, Dave Jones wrote: Do you know what the long-term plan is for the /x1 mount? Was it setup as a temporary place to restore old backups? I am trying to organize everything under /usr/local/spamassassin and the root FS doesn't have enough space. If the plan was to eventually

Re: Fwd: Re: Ready for the Hidden Master to be Polled

2017-05-08 Thread Dave Jones
On 05/05/2017 07:38 AM, Dave Jones wrote: On 05/04/2017 11:20 PM, Kevin A. McGrail wrote: On 5/3/2017 7:19 AM, Dave Jones wrote: Thought: Open up transfer from 69.171.29.37 and I'll test if I can pull the zone. Is there anything you can see wrong with that record? It's looking like deali