Service/Nameservers

Hostmasters

To request changes to DNS records, contact <hostmaster AT sugarlabs DOT org>

Current hostmasters are:

Registered nameservers

The following nameservers are currently registerted in whois records for our domains:

(FIXME: this is what it should look like after the current transitional mess)

hostname	aka	location	IPv4	IPv6
ns1.sugarlabs.org	lightwave	FSF, Boston, USA	140.186.70.102	2002:8cba:4666::1
ns2.sugarlabs.net	sunjammer	FSF, Boston, USA	140.186.70.53	2002:8cba:4635::1
ns1.codewiz.org	trinity	Develer, Firenze, Italy	83.149.158.210	2002:5395:9ed2::1

Editing zone data

We use distributed version control and admin scripts to arbitrate edits to the zone files and nameserver configurations. DO NOT EDIT THESE FILES LOCALLY, ANY CHANGES WILL BE OVERWRITTEN.

Checkout nameserver config

Checkout the repository as usual:

git clone lightwave.sugarlabs.org:/var/lib/bind/etc/bind ns

Do not checkout the repository as root. Your user needs to be in group bind.

Edit zone data

Guidelines for editing zones:

Please keep the zone files tidy, by following indentation style

Add comments as needed to describe obscure records in the zone files

Remember to keep reverse zones always up to date

Bump the serials after each update!

Push changes back to master nameserver

Commit your changes, preferably with a meaningful comment:

 git commit -a -v

Then, push your changes:

 git push

We have a handy post-receive hook to automate the rest of the procedure:
- send a notification email to systems-logs@;
- checkout your changes to the bind configuration directory;
- make BIND reload its configuration;
- watch BIND's log file to ensure slaves are actually transferring the changed zones.

Implementation details

We use a detached working directory to allow the automatic checkout to work (see post-receive hook below). The git repository is in /var/lib/bind/etc/bind.git and the working directory lives in /var/lib/bind/etc/bind. /etc/bind is a symlink to the working directory (/var/lib/bind/etc/bind).

The git config file is as follows:

[core]
       repositoryformatversion = 0
       filemode = true
       bare = false
       sharedRepository = true
       logallrefupdates = true
       worktree = /etc/bind
[receive]
       denycurrentbranch = ignore

[hooks]
       mailinglist = systems-logs@...
       emailprefix = "[DNS] "
       showrev = "git show -C %s; echo"

/var/lib/bind/etc/bind.git/description contains the repository description "Sugar Labs DNS zone data"
We use a post-receive hook to checkout the zones to the local sandbox and make BIND reload them:

#!/bin/bash
/bin/bash /usr/share/doc/git-core/contrib/hooks/post-receive-email
git checkout -f
tail -n0 -f /var/log/daemon.log &
/etc/init.d/bind9 reload
sleep 3