[wplug-board] Fwd: Call for WPLUG Internet Committee Report

[David Ostroske]

Duncan reported for the Internet Committee on Friday, June 9th. Beth
and Bill, you've seen this already.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Duncan Hutty <dhutty at ece.cmu.edu>
Date: Jun 9, 2006 8:47 PM
Subject: Re: Call for WPLUG Internet Committee Report
To: David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>
Cc: Beth Lynn <bethlynn at wplug.org>, Bill Moran
<wmoran at potentialtech.com>, Mark Dalrymple <wplug at badgertronics.com>,
Michael Semcheski <mhs at nedyah.org>, Scott Kriebel <smk at fyi.net>


David Ostroske wrote:

> Please respond. Can someone provide a report for the Internet Committee?
>
> The membership meeting is scheduled for this Saturday, and the board
> meeting will be next Wednesday. If you don't have a complete report,
> then any piece of information pertaining to committee activities will
> do.
>
Primary activity of the moment is creating a failover machine to serve
as a stand-in for penguin.wplug.org. Penguin needs to be rebuilt, but
since we do not wish to be without its services while this happens, a
spare machine has been acquired and an OS installed. FreeBSD was
selected after a brief but frustrating tussle with FC5. Since then,
progress has been delayed because Beth Lynn was at Usenix ATC and then
unwell. When this machine is placed back on the internet, we will begin
to install and test network services on it: http, smtp, listserv, db and
whatever else needs to be done to make it a testing ground and temporary
replacement for penguin.wplug.org

Feel free to go further into planning what should be done and how it
should be implemented if you want, but only if you let me know your
suggestions/decisions.

Otherwise our internet activities are swimming along satisfactorily,
although I have noticed a downturn in the amount of traffic on most of
the lists and #wplug...not that this matters much, it's not a cause for
concern IMO, just an observation.

Let me know if you want more detail.

Duncan Hutty

PS David, it's probably best to use the ece.cmu.edu address for me
generally, at least for now, until I settle on a more suitable, non-work
account.


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David Ostroske <eksortso at gmail.com>