Hi all, Starting in tarsnap 1.0.37, instead of the historical hostname "betatest-server.tarsnap.com", tarsnap will attempt to look up and connect to "v1-0-0-server.tarsnap.com". I'm making this change because (a) tarsnap hasn't been in beta for many years, and (b) people were getting confused when they saw "beta". The IP addresses will be identical.
I will make a point of mentioning this in the release announcement (coming soon, but the new version will go to the tarsnap-alphatest list first), but I wanted to provide a heads-up to this list first, in case anyone is doing anything evil (filtering on hostnames of DNS lookups? using /etc/hosts to point tarsnap into a tunnel?). If you think this will cause problems for you, please let me know (either via the list, or off-list if you don't want to discuss your issues publicly). -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid