[OZAPRS] first.aprs.net.au relocation coming up

Darryl Ross d at vk5hz.com
Fri Jul 23 12:13:22 EST 2010


Hi Geoff,

The same machine is running a web server however, so good practice would
be to create an apache virtualserver and redirect all requests to the
hostname to the main aprs.net.au website.

Regards
Darryl



On 22/07/10 11:39, Geoff wrote:
> Hi Colin,
> 
> Not sure what you are trying to view, but that's a redirection from the
> server at work here that used to host first.aprs.net.au.  There are no
> longer any aprs DNS records pointing to my work servers, so I'm guessing
> your ISP is caching their DNS and overriding the response TTL with their own
> :(
> 
> In any case, the only reason you would be seeing that website is if you were
> trying to browse to the APRS server instead of using an APRS client on the
> correct ports.  Regardless of whether the DNS is right or not, that is not a
> valid URL - the APRS server doesn't host a user-accessible website - the
> APRS website is at http://www.aprs.net.au.
> 
> Regards,
> Geoff  VK2XJG
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
> Behalf Of Colin Thompson
> Sent: Thursday, 22 July 2010 10:07 AM
> To: Australian APRS Users
> Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] first.aprs.net.au relocation coming up
> 
> Maybe DNS has not caught up as yet as it seems it is coming up as
> Comverse "Making your network Smarter" website.
> 
> Or it may be an apace config error (that is if you are using Apache)
> 
> Regards to all and 73
> 
> Col
> (aka VK2CRT, VK2CRT-7, & VK2CRT-9)
> 
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 6:55 AM, Geoff <geoff-lists at gatwards.org> wrote:
>> Folks,   FYI, The cutover of first.aprs.net.au to the new server was
>> completed yesterday morning.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks for your patience J
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geoff
>>
>>
>>
>> From: Geoff [mailto:geoff-lists at gatwards.org]
>> Sent: Tuesday, 20 July 2010 8:28 PM
>> To: 'Australian APRS Users'
>> Subject: RE: [OZAPRS] first.aprs.net.au relocation coming up
>>
>>
>>
>> An update on this cutover….
>>
>>
>>
>> The ‘old’ first.aprs.net.au has been turned off, and the new server is
>> running.
>>
>> Connections to the new server should be available once a couple of DNS
>> entries have been updated and an upstream connection established.
>>
>>
>>
>> However – it looks like there are a couple of users with an incorrect
>> APRS-IS setup, as there are FOUR users already connected to the new
> server,
>> despite the fact that none of the DNS records have been updated yet!!   
> The
>> only thing I can think of is that  www.aprs.net.au  is being used as a
>> server address, which is WRONG!  (It’s just a coincidence that the new
>> server is co-hosted with the website now)
>>
>>
>>
>> The affected stations are currently:  VK3CE, VK3MY, VK8NSB and ZL2UCX
>>
>>
>>
>> Until there is an upstream connection and the DNS has been updated, all
>> these stations will see is each other…..
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geoff  VK2XJG
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> From: ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au [mailto:ozaprs-bounces at aprs.net.au] On
>> Behalf Of Geoff
>> Sent: Saturday, 17 July 2010 3:43 PM
>> To: 'Australian APRS Users'
>> Subject: [OZAPRS] first.aprs.net.au relocation coming up
>>
>>
>>
>> Folks,
>>
>>
>>
>> During the next week there may be some service interruptions to
>> first.aprs.net.au, as we will be moving it to a new server.
>>
>> The transition should be fairly seamless, but you may notice some
>> interruption as the change in DNS record takes a little while to
> propagate.
>>
>> Most of you should be set up to automatically fail over to
>> second.aprs.net.au if first goes down, so you shouldn’t notice a break at
>> all J
>>
>>
>>
>> Will let you all know when the move is completed.
>>
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Geoff  VK2XJG
>>
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