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Re: DNS volunteer needed
I'm happy to do it unless someone else steps forward.
Jim Pick <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> In the spring, at the request of Lars Wirzenius (who was LDP leader at
> the time), I registered the 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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