[AC-Admins] ANTHROCHAT.NET: Outdated SSL-Certificate

[Pippin Bear]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 12:28:45PM -0500, Simba wrote:
> 
> On 1/26/19 2:30 PM, Metalhorn wrote:
> > when I connected to the network, I saw that the SSL-certificate is
> > outdated, can you renew it ?
> 
>      The one on lion.anthrochat.net should be valid.  Unfortunately, I
> don't have any control over the certs on the rest of the servers.

Looks like the cert on bear is from 2008, when the Catsden CA last issued
a certificate for it.

Hmm.  I thought I vaguely remembered that you (Simba) were planning to
get Let's Encrypt certs for all the servers.  Because they would need
irc.anthrochat.net et al included it'd need the DNS verification method
so you would have to get them centrally and have your ACME client fiddle
with the DNS zone.  Does this vague memory correspond to reality at all?

On the other hand I haven't used IRC since about 2015, don't have much
actual interest in keeping the ircds running any more (I haven't touched
the binaries or configs since 2010, apparently - wow I've had these
servers for a long time...), and user numbers are down far enough (~250)
that a single server would likely be plenty, so I have been expecting for
a good while now to shut down bear and husky at some point.  I haven't
got round to it yet and am not sure when I will, but I don't seem to be
in much of a rush!  I'll give fair warning before I do of course.

Wikifur says Anthrochat started in March 2004.  Back then I hosted bear
on (I think) a little K6-2 server which sat amongst other mini-tower
boxes on a set of metal shelves in the office of the ISP I worked at
in north London.  Small office, about 8 people total I think.  We had
a 2Mbps leased line serving the whole lot - all of our desktop machines
plus probably a couple of dozen web/email/DNS servers, a few Lotus Notes
servers, my box, probably others I don't remember, and even a second
leased line hanging off it going to a client site.  Who could survive
with only 2Mbps even for a single user nowadays? :p

Maybe March 2019 would be a suitable time for me to bow out, making it
a nice round 15 years.

Pippin