[H-ADMIN] [H-SASIG] [Fwd: humbug.org.au domain expired [now fixed]]

Stephen Quoll stephen at quollified.com
Sat Jul 3 00:02:10 EDT 2010


Thankyou Greg and Russell

That's the most appropriate thing I can think of at the moment too, a
valid address is good, but for something that important I think the list
is more appropriate.

  -- Stephen



On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 09:16 +1000, Russell Stuart wrote:
> Firstly - Mark, could you send us an invoice for the domain renewal.
> Just an email will do.
> 
> This mess was caused at least partially by me.
> 
> I noticed that renewal notices were being dropped to some humbug alias
> that I was unfamiliar with, possibly dead and certainly not a current
> member, and so re-directed all contact details for ''humbug.org.au'' to
> treasurer-ausregistry at humbug.org.au.  Not being quite sure who that
> should be, I redirected treasurer-ausregistry at humbug.org.au to
> exec at humbug.org.au until I found the time to put more thought into it.
> 
> Mailman didn't forward messages sent to
> treasurer-ausregistry at humbug.org.au to the exec list - it simply dropped
> them.  Turns out it drops any messages sent to a list that don't have
> the list address explicitly in either a To: or Cc: field.  Thus we
> didn't receive the renewal notices.
> 
> I have now told Enetica to send messages to exec at humbug.org.au for now,
> which works around the problem.  I should test that it actually works,
> but haven't figured out how to prod Enetica.com.au (our DNS registrar)
> into sending us a test email.  Humbug.org.au's technical contact is now
> sasig at lists.humbug.org.au.
> 
> While I was there, I changed the physical contact address to Humbug's PO
> Box.  Unfortunately it insists on having a contact phone number, so I
> entered my mobile number.  I have updated http://www.humbug.org.au/Exec
> to say this should be changed when a new Exec comes in.
> 
> Hopefully this set of changes is a fairly permanent fix, at least until
> something dramatic changes.  If someone can think of a better way of
> handling this, please reply.
> 
> -------- Forwarded Message --------
> From: Greg Black <gjb at yaxom.com>
> To: sasig at lists.humbug.org.au
> Subject: [H-SASIG] humbug.org.au domain expired [now fixed]
> Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2010 21:00:51 +1000
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> Our humbug.org.au domain expired some time very recently. I
> noticed it this evening. I rang Mark Suter as he is still the
> technical contact and he renewed the domain immediately with his
> credit card.
> 
> Humbug owes Mark $39 at some point. And we need to do something
> to make sure that we remember to renew it on 30 June 2012, which
> is when it will next need to be renewed.
> 
> The DNS is all back to normal now.
> 
> Cheers, Greg
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