Re: [Firebird-website] Jaybird Wiki DNS change

[Helen B. <he...@fi...>]

At 11:35 PM 14/01/2006 +0100, you wrote:
>>I will check it further and will report it here.
>
>Ok, found it:
>
>roman@nevarsin:~$ dig +trace jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org
>......
>;; Received 303 bytes from 202.12.27.33#53(M.ROOT-SERVERS.NET) in 18 ms
>
>firebirdsql.org.        86400   IN      NS      dns2.stargateinc.net.
>firebirdsql.org.        86400   IN      NS      dns1.stargateinc.net.
>;; Received 98 bytes from 204.74.112.1#53(TLD1.ULTRADNS.NET) in 95 ms
>
>jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org. 3600 IN    CNAME   nevarsin.de.
>;; Received 70 bytes from 65.118.240.12#53(dns2.stargateinc.net) in 115 ms
>
>
>As you see, entry is reported by dns2.stargateinc.net, which is 
>responsible for firebirdsql.org. So, you have to figure out, how did it happen.
>
>When you update, please use
>
>jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org. 3600 IN CNAME jaybird.rokytskyy.de.
>
>which will ensure that in the future we will not need to update 
>firebirdsql.org records when jaybirdwiki server is changed.

OK, here's what I think has happened....

Originally Stargate's interface was very "raw" - they had a domain 
management console that one accessed via ones Internic nick and 
password.  Mark O. knew my Internic login and I think it was he who set up 
this sub-domain after the conference in 2003 (or might have been 
2004).  Does this ring a bell?

Since then, Stargate cleaned up their act and consolidated all of the 
domains that are owned by my nick.  They replaced the old console with a 
new (totally different) one, from which I can access all of the 
domains.  In the process, they failed to transfer the DNS Management 
feature, hence DNS management is not showing any sub-domains.  (The fact 
that jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org has continued to work indicates however 
that the sub-domain record, probably an A record, must exist *somewhere*!)

I just bought a 5-year pack of DNS Management records (50 records).  The 
jaybirdwiki record didn't show up anywhere at all (you can set them up as 
CNAME, A, plus a choice of other options).  I have added 
jaybirdwiki.firebirdsql.org as a CNAME record pointing to 
jaybird.rokytskyy.de, and it was accepted.

So - the acid test now is whether I have broken the old record.  Can you 
test it out please?

Helen