[tech] Re: [wheel] Mooneye/moray

[David Manchester]

> [TDH] asked on wheel what was happening to moray's old hardware and
> name.
> 
> Moray's hard disc deserves to be thrown away. It's otherwise an adequate
> VLB 486DX4-100. 16MB RAM, 16MB cached IDE controller. I think it's got
> VLB graphics.

OK - I concur on the Disk issue. Someone hit it witha VAXlart.

> There's a dump of its filesystem on mussel:/mnt/mako (where there
> happened to be some free space).

OK - do we want to put this on tape..?

> mooneye can and should keep its name. Anything that refers to moray when
> it means "mailhost" or "socks" or "coke" is broken. moray was renamed
> to morayold, temporarily, so we can find broken things quickly. Hasn't
> been much - mussel and starfish were trying to use moray rather than
> mailhost as a sendmail smarthost.

Right - I predicted a response from nick.
My concern is that there aren't that many sensible m-fish names &
people know machines by their services.
Its a mindshift to start using another machine, for starters, +/- rhosts files,
ssh keys and whatnot.
I agree that CNAMEing mail/socks/coke is sane, in case of emergency
and I think that mooneye's hardware is a good idea(TM).

> mooneye took moray's IP address so there's no need for resolv.conf
> fiddling or DNS redelegations.

Rightho. So, for all intents, moray has ceased to be.

I'm just curious... is that the right thing to do..?

Cheers
/dave
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