[OZAPRS] aprs.net.au server to go offline

[Geoff Gatward]

Folks,

If you are connecting to aprs.net.au with your client software, you
won't need to change a thing.  The redirection will be of the A record
and will redirect you to second.aprs.net.au.   When we eventually find a
new home for aprs.net.au we will restore the DNS to normal - hopefully
fully transparent to the users.

The only address that will be different is the web pages...
Currently http://aprs.net.au  takes you to the VK APRS pages, however
after tonight this URL will no longer work, as there is no web server at
that address.   HOWEVER...  http://www.aprs.net.au  WILL get you to the
VK APRS pages.

Geoff  VK2XJG
(second.aprs.net.au)

-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
[mailto:ozaprs-bounces at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au] On Behalf Of Chris Hill
Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2003 3:15 PM
To: ozaprs at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
Subject: RE: [OZAPRS] aprs.net.au server to go offline

Hi Darryl,

Will the A record for aprs.net.au be changed to point to the same IP
address
as second.aprs.net.au points to (ie 203.17.15.167) ?

I currently have UI-VIEW configured to connect to "aprs.net.au:10153",
and
won't need to change anythign, if the A record will indeed be taken care
of
at the DNS.  However, if "aprs.net.au" will temporarily (eg more than an
hour or two) disappear, then I need to change the "Setup | APRS Server
Setup
" part of UI-VIEW to connect to second.aprs.net.au

This will apply to others, as well.

------------

By the way, the "SOA Expire" time is set unusually low for aprs.net.au,
at
60480 seconds; this means the entire domain can only survive the primary
DNS
being down for roughly 17 hours, before the secondaries expire all
entries.

A normal value (see RFC1912 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1912.txt) is
between
2 and 4 weeks, which makes for a robust DNS structure;  it's highly
unlikely
that the Primary DNS would be down for 2 weeks straight, although as
recent
unfortunate events have shown, it is possible that it can be down for
several days (and certainly for more than 17 hours!).

Therefore, I recommend that the SOA Expire timer is changed from 60480
to
2419200 seconds.



73 Chris vk6kch




-----Original Message-----
From: ozaprs-bounces at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au
[mailto:ozaprs-bounces at marconi.ics.mq.edu.au]On Behalf Of Darryl Smith
Sent: Sunday, 9 March 2003 7:57 AM
To: Zlaprs; ozaprs at careless.net; 'VK2-APRS'; aprs sig (aprs sig)
Subject: [OZAPRS] aprs.net.au server to go offline


People

We have recently been notified that the organisation that has been
prodiding the APRS.NET.AU server is unable to continue to provide this
service. Thankfully we have located an alternative for the
WWW.APRS.NET.AU WWW site and will be switching over to this new server
at about 7:00 PM this evening Sydney time (Sunday 9/March). We will also
be switching APRS.NET.AU to SECOND.APRS.NET.AU removing the redundancy
that we have had until now.

Hopefully we can find a new host for aprs.net.au and restore full
redundancy to the VK APRS-IS shortly.

Darryl

---------
Darryl Smith, VK2TDS   POBox 169 Ingleburn NSW 2565 Australia
Mobile Number 0412 929 634 [+61 4 12 929 634 International]
Darryl at radio-active.net.au | www.radio-active.net.au


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