[AC-Admins] European server rejig
Pippin Bear
pippin at floof.org
Wed Sep 17 21:22:00 EDT 2008
I should probably mention that both Anthrochat's current European servers,
squirrel and husky, are on IP addresses that won't last much longer.
Squirrel is on a rental machine where the rental company
(firstdedicated.co.uk) is shutting down soon (midnight, 30th November).
Husky is on an IP address from the temporary block I got from one of my
transit providers when I started up my colo business and I need to stop
using that block and move everything onto my PA block I got from RIPE
so that I can switch to proper BGP connectivity on that transit link.
I've set up bear.anthrochat.net on an IP address in my PA block, linked it
to husky, and am letting it sit for a while. If everyone would please
duplicate their link block for husky and name the copy bear with IP
address 93.190.168.240, that would be very helpful. I'll then link it
to some host other than one in the same rack as a further check on how
stable my new prefix is - I think the single transit it's announced over
at the moment is not as reliable as I'd hope - I think it's wobbled at
least twice in the past few months. With luck I can get all my customers
to move over to the new prefix reasonably soon and then I'll be able to
use the other transit properly (at the moment it's statically routed and
would entail downtime for the old prefix to reconfigure it all as BGP -
and the upstream won't let me announce their PA space because it'll mess
up their filtering or something).
Bear should now be a stable IP address that I can keep for the forseeable
future (although I will probably want to move it to another machine at
some point). I'll probably set up a second ircd at some point when I
have an off-site backup server in place.
Squirrel doesn't need shutting down yet - it has a couple of months
still to go. Husky doesn't really need shutting down yet either,
but at some point once all the customers are moved to the new prefix
I'll want to get that address block dropped fairly quickly and get the
routing reconfiguration done, so at that point there may not be all
that much notice of the change. It'll also be useful to get rid of the
physical machine husky's on as it's old and creaky and will probably
die anyway soon. And it's a huge 4U and incredibly slow (K6 350MHz,
64MB RAM, 2+3GB IDE disks with software RAID1), ick!
So, for the moment, setting up link blocks for bear would be good, thanks
all! (Identical to husky but with name bear and IP 93.190.168.240.)
Pippin
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