[FredLug] TUX.org status

[Chris O'Donnell]

I'll own up to wondering some of the same things as Martes. It seems like a
lot of hassle for little benefit. I have plenty of room on my shared hosting
account. Somebody come up with a URL and we'll round up $10 a year amongst
ourselves an we can put it on a virtual directory on my server space. It'll
be on Linux and everything will be open source, but it will be much less
hassle I think.

The downside is that we won't have root access.

On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 8:30 PM, Martes G Wigglesworth <
mailinglistmember at mgwigglesworth.net> wrote:

>
> I really am not trying to be a nit-picker, however, I wonder how stable
> tux.org or is.
>
> When I first got on the NovLug, and other northern VA lists hosted by
> tux.org, I had trouble sending email to them because their dns was not
> configured to standard, and my bind install was doing something weird.
> It took my input, and others to get a simple dns record to be corrected
> so that my email would be routed to the actual server, instead of
> something else. At the time I assumed it was my fault for not being in
> the process of administering many production systems and not having seen
> everything there is to see, however, when I did a simple dig mx and some
> other troubleshooting, I found the problem very quickly.
>
> Why has a piece of donated hardware taken 2 years NOT to be
> installed???  I would think that NoVA people would be more professional,
> however, I am not familiar with all the factors.  Where is Tux.org
> hosted??? Is it in someones spare work area, hence the lack of work
> schedule?
>
> I would volunteer to drive up and set up everything if that is the case,
> however it seems that people aren't even making the indicated hardware
> available....
>
> Can anyone grant me some clarity here....
>
> P.S. I really don't want to sound like "one of those" guys, and piss
> anyone off so I am asking here, instead of directly on NoVaLug, to
> simply get some back story, and not to try to ruffle any feathers....
>
> --
> Respectfully,
>
>
> Martes G Wigglesworth
> M. G. Wigglesworth Holdings, LLC
> www.mgwigglesworth.net
>
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Chris
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