Thanks; I worked through OSUOSL to get the DNS changeover done. The new website is live.

There doesn't appear to be a pressing need to change the technical contact for the DNS records at this time, so I think leaving things as is for now should be fine. However, I do have a Gandi account and would be ok with being the contact should we need to change things some day.

Bryce

On Tue, Dec 03, 2013 at 02:10:49PM -0500, Bradley M. Kuhn wrote:

TL;DR: there's no action item I am taking now to point www.inkscape.org at py1.osuosl.org. OSU-OSL needs to do it, but we can change it so that Conservancy and/or an Inkscape Committee member has authority to make such changes directly with Gandi in future.

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Bryce W. Harrington wrote today:

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Now that our DNS is held by SFC, who is the contact person for doing DNS changes?

Actually, has it stands, Conservancy is the merely holding the registrar for the accounting, but the DNS still points to (as seen in whois inkscape.org):

Name Server:NS1.AUTH.OSUOSL.ORG Name Server:NS2.AUTH.OSUOSL.ORG Name Server:NS3.AUTH.OSUOSL.ORG

So...

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Our new website is ready to go immediately, we just need the DNS flipped. Specifically, we need inkscape.org and www.inkscape.org pointed at py1.osuosl.org (140.211.15.230).

... I bet whoever you're talking to at OSU-OSL (Lance?) who set up py1 for you also has authority to update the DNS.

inkscape.org is hosted at Gandi now, and it's possible to do two things to make this easier:

• Someone on the Inkscape committee can make a Gandi account, which can be made the Technical Contact for the domain, and then have authority to make non-billing-related changes like nameservers for the domain.

• If OSU-OSL hosting the DNS isn't desired any longer, we could use Gandi's DNS hosting in addition to being the registrar.

-- bkuhn