[tech] DNS changes

Andrew Adamson bob at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Fri Apr 24 22:22:36 AWST 2020


Hi All,

In an attempt to get our ssl certificates working again (for now), I've 
made a small but significant change to UCC's DNS. We previously had 
mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au registered as our nameserver with ventraip (our 
DNS registrar). Since UWA is going Cloudflare and are taking over control 
of the ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au domain, they've changed the IP that 
mooneye.ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au is pointing at, and broken a bunch of our 
services in the process. 

UCC still has control of ucc.asn.au and it still points at 130.95.13.9, so 
I've changed our NS with ventraip to be mooneye.ucc.asn.au and updated the 
zones on mooneye to reflect this. Hopefully this will keep things like 
letsencrypt working for the ucc.asn.au domain for now.

This will of course only work until May 1st, at which point UWA will be 
firewalling port 53 and we will be unable to run our own DNS server - by 
that time we have to have either found a non-uwa internet connection, or 
have ucc.asn.au coming in via a free cloudflare account. Yay.

Andrew Adamson
bob at ucc.asn.au

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