> On 7 Dec 2015, at 12:16, Daniela Bauer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Well, Janet seems very keen that you follow the proper channels when you contact them (can I have some proper channels as well, please ?), so someone with the right sort of credentials could point that out to them, please ?
We’re waiting for a second alternative to be set up and as soon as that is done, we will contact the people in IT services who can request the update by Janet (when we need these updates doing we can’t request them directly.)
Cheers
Andrew
> On 7 December 2015 at 11:54, Terry Froy <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 11:01 +0000, Daniela Bauer wrote:
>
>> On the plus side though gridpp.ac.uk is now also hosted on the Imperial College DNS servers, and should therefore not be affected.
>>
>
> Daniela,
>
> Unfortunately not.
>
> I did notice over the weekend that the existing gridpp.ac.uk nameservers were providing an additional NS record when queried but this will make zero difference as gridpp.ac.uk has not yet been re-delegated at the ac.uk level by JANET.
>
> [tez@phoenix ~]$ dig @ns0.ja.net gridpp.ac.uk ns
>
> ; <<>> DiG 9.10.2-P4-RedHat-9.10.2-6.P4.fc22 <<>> @ns0.ja.net gridpp.ac.uk ns
> ; (4 servers found)
> ;; global options: +cmd
> ;; Got answer:
> ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: NOERROR, id: 41540
> ;; flags: qr rd; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 2, ADDITIONAL: 1
> ;; WARNING: recursion requested but not available
>
> ;; OPT PSEUDOSECTION:
> ; EDNS: version: 0, flags:; udp: 4096
> ;; QUESTION SECTION:
> ;gridpp.ac.uk. IN
> NS
>
> ;; AUTHORITY SECTION:
> gridpp.ac.uk. 86400
> IN NS
> ns0.tier2.hep.manchester.ac.uk.
> gridpp.ac.uk. 86400
> IN NS
> ns1.tier2.hep.manchester.ac.uk.
>
> ;; Query time: 3 msec
> ;; SERVER: 128.86.1.20#53(128.86.1.20)
> ;; WHEN: Mon Dec 07 11:49:33 GMT 2015
> ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 98
>
> In order for this delegation to have the intended effect of providing some resilience, someone at Manchester needs to get in touch with JANET:
>
> https://community.jisc.ac.uk/library/janet-services-documentation/modify-dns-entries
>
> I must also respectfully point out to the zone administrator that increasing default TTLs (especially those belonging to 'critical' hostnames such as voms.gridpp.ac.uk) to something above 10 minutes is likely a very good idea.
>
> Regards,
> Terry
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> Terry Froy
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> Queen Mary, University of London
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>
>
>
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Cheers
Andrew
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