[tech] New UCC DNS servers

[James Andrewartha]

Excellent work. As we are now the proud owners of ucc.au, I'm going to add 
that to the config. Should we make username.ucc.au work like 
username.ucc.asn.au works?

On Wed, 21 Sep 2022, James Arcus wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Thanks to [MTL] and others, UCC now has a new pair of DNS servers. The main
> server is run on a new VM (monnik), with the fallback running on 
> murasoi, the
> club network router.
> 
> We've already changed the DHCP server to hand out the new nameservers, 
> so all
> machines that auto-configure their network settings should have picked 
> up the
> new settings. We'll be migrating the statically-configured machines soon.
> 
> If you have a member VM that has a static network configuration, please 
> update
> your nameservers to 130.95.13.2 (main) and 130.95.13.1 (fallback). On Linux,
> you can do that by updating /etc/resolv.conf to something like the
> following:
> 
>      search ucc.asn.au
>      nameserver 130.95.13.2
>      nameserver 130.95.13.1
> 
> The existing DNS server mooneye (130.95.13.9) will remain up for the time
> being, but will be decommissioned in the near future. (Or, it may end up
> decommissioning itself, because it currently has several drive pre-failure
> warnings.)
> 
> If you notice any new issues with connecting to internet sites, do let us
> know. Everything /seems/ to be working OK at this point, but teething issues
> are always to be expected, especially with the change of DNS resolver
> software.
> 
> Cheers,
> James [MPT]
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