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1HANDLING CNAME REQUESTS
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3When someone e-mails scripts.mit.edu asking for a foo.mit.edu hostname:
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51. Check that the hostname is not currently in use. The commands
6     stella foo.mit.edu
7     athrun ops qy ghal foo.mit.edu \*
8   should both say the name is not in use. (The latter checks for aliases of
9   deleted or otherwise inactive hostnames that stella ignores.)
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11   If the name is currently an alias of a name they own, make sure to forward
12   to jweiss the permission to move that name around.
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14   If the name is the primary name of a machine they own, ask them what they
15   would like to rename the machine to, and make it clear that they'll need to
16   have another name associated with that IP address. Or (especially if the
17   machine doesn't ping) ask them to confirm they're no longer using that IP
18   address. If they're totally confused and keep insisting they want scripts
19   to serve that name, go ahead and tell them you'll rename the current foo to
20   foo-old.
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22   If the name belongs to a deleted host on a dorm network, e-mail rccsuper to
23   reap it; they should do so quickly. If it belongs to an FSILG, e-mail
24   ht-$ILG-acl (ht-et-acl, ht-pika-acl, etc.) and ask nicely. If it belongs
25   to an academic network, they're not getting the name back unless they can
26   negotiate with the current owner of the name
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282. Check that they're requesting a scripts.mit.edu path that they control
29   (preferably, they'll give you a locker.scripts.mit.edu/something URL). If
30   they want a web.mit.edu path, you'll need to tell them to set up a redirect
31   according to http://scripts.mit.edu/faq/63/ in a directory in their
32   web_scripts, and ask them to tell us the directory. This doesn't block
33   requesting the hostname.
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35   If they want something more outlandish, make sure they're not confused
36   before proceeding.
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383. E-mail jweiss.
39   * Open the ticket in RT
40   * Click 'Comment' to the right of the body of the e-mail they sent
41   * CC: jweiss@mit.edu (Don't use "To:", there's a bug)
42   * Write something nice. I typically use
43   Subject: scripts CNAME request: foo.mit.edu
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45   At your convenience, please make foo.mit.edu an alias of scripts.mit.edu.
46       (or)
47   At your convenience, please move the alias foo.mit.edu from bar.mit.edu to
48     scripts.mit.edu.
49       (or)
50   At your convenience, please rename the current host foo.mit.edu to
51     foo-old.mit.edu and make foo.mit.edu an alias of scripts.mit.edu.
52       (or)
53   If the request below is sufficient authorization, please remove....
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55   * Set Status => Waiting and Blocking On => Moira
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57   Occasionally jweiss is on vacation; check /mit/ops/Pager.Schedule for
58   "!jweiss" entries. It's worth asking him ahead of time if he's around. If
59   not, see if zacheiss or cfox or computing-help will handle the requests.
60   (zacheiss has been willing to do them in the past.)
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624. Reply to the requestor (from either RT or your e-mail client), with
63   something like "We've forwarded the hostname request to IS&T; it should take
64   effect in 2-3 business days."
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665. After the name updates (jweiss replies, and DNS updates - which you can
67   check on -i dns), ask someone with root access to run
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69   vhostadd foo.mit.edu
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716. Reply to the requestor again, and help them with stuff like MediaWiki URLs
72   or RewriteRules if they're having trouble.
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74--geofft, last updated 2008-08-02
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