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Re: DNS volunteer needed




I'm happy to do it unless someone else steps forward.

Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com> writes:
> Hi,
> 
> In the spring, at the request of Lars Wirzenius (who was LDP leader at
> the time), I registered the www.linuxdoc.org domain name, setup the zone
> files in my DNS, and paid the $70 US Internic fee myself.
> 
> I'm now very displeased to see that the domain name is now being used
> to run banner ads for a commercial company.  :-(
> 
> Also, I have had some difficulty interfacing with the "core team".
> Given the track record so far, I've lost confidence that they aren't
> going to make another big screwup.  Now that I see that money and
> contracts are involved, that makes me doubly uncomfortable.
> 
> Since I'm managing the DNS, that puts me in a funny situation of being
> the only person outside of the core team that could conceivably yank
> the domain name away from them if things went really bad.  If there is
> a mutiny of some sort, people will be approaching me to break ranks
> with the core team.  I've had a domain name yanked out from under me
> (linuxhq.com), and it's pretty unpleasant.  So I don't want to be in
> this position.
> 
> So, I'm asking for a volunteer (preferably someone who has confidence
> in the core team, or a member of the core team) to take over the DNS
> duties from me.  I'll continue to run the DNS until somebody
> volunteers, so don't worry about me shutting things down or anything
> like that.
> 
> If I wasn't in the whois record, I probably wouldn't have been so
> vocal about the banner ad - because it wouldn't reflect on me
> indirectly.  So volunteering to take over my DNS duties would be a
> good way to shut me up.  :-)
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>  - Jim
> 
> 
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