Resist!ca | appropriate technology

The Resist Collective is an autonomous body based primarily in Vancouver, Canada. Our purpose is to aid in the creation of a free society, a world with freedom of expression and freedom from want, a world without oppression or hierarchy, where power is shared equally. We do this by providing communication and computer resources to allies engaged in struggles against capitalism and other forms of oppression. more

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Announcements for resist services users

Hi,

If you have a website or a e-mail domain hosted on our server, this email announces two important operations on our hosting service. For other, it announces some downtimes. There will be a reminder set a bit in advance to remind you of those changes.

If you do not understand any parts of this email, contact help@resist.ca and we will answer your questions. Understand that failure to act upon this email may result in total or partial service outage.

Operational summary

The first operation is the transfer of our transit provider. The objective is to cut operating costs. This operation will be performed before Sunday June 23rd, at which date, if you have services running on our machines that are using a domain name not hosted by us, you will have to change:

The IP addresses of one of our nameserver (72.15.150.101), if you used those anywhere in your domain name configuration.
The IP addresses of our servers (usually 72.15.150.98, 72.15.150.100 or 72.15.150.101 if you're hosting mail onto our servers), if you used those anywhere in your configuration.

Remapping of public IPs, and timeline

First off, the IP addresses of the physical and virtual servers hosted with Resist will be changed on June 23rd 2013 7 PST. During the weekend, short outages of different servers are possible, up to two hours per server.

The list of current and new IP addresses is at the bottom of this email.

First wave

web.resist.ca: will move from 72.15.150.98 to 199.58.80.148 by June 23rd 7PM PST. It will still be accessible via 72.15.150.98 until July 15th.
drupal.resist.ca: will move from 72.15.150.100 to 199.58.80.140 by June 23rd 7PM PST. It will still be accessible via 72.15.150.100 until July 15th.
shell.resist.ca: will move from 72.15.150.102 to 199.58.80.142 by June 23rd 7PM PST. It will still be accessible via 72.15.150.98 until July 15th.

Second wave

lists.resist.ca: will move from 72.15.150.104 to 199.58.80.144 on June 13th 7PM PST. It will still be accessible via 72.15.150.98 until July 15th.
mail.resist.ca: will move from 72.15.150.102 to 199.58.80.142 on June 13th 7PM PST. It will still be accessible via 72.15.150.98 until July 15th.
smtp.resist.ca: will move from 72.15.150.99 to 199.58.80.139 on June 13th 7PM PST. It will still be accessible via 72.15.150.98 until July 15th.

Actions to take on your part

Those of you who registered their domain names on registrars for which Resist.ca is not the technical contact need to check their DNS entries to make sure they are not using resist.ca servers IPs. This operation must be performed between June 23rd from 7PM PST and June 28th. If the resist! collective is the technical contact for your domain, you do not have to take action here.
Those of you hosting their DNS on servers not managed by ip will need to change their "A" records to point to their new IP. This operation must be performed from June 23rd from 7PM PST, to June 28th.
We will maintain IP redirection service until June 28th to ensure that no one is left behind.

Operation technical details

The operation will be done in three (4) steps on our side:

June 22nd, 23rd. We transfer data over, and get the new server running. We'll be "freezing" content of each server for a short while, to get everything in sync, and then we'll just switch over. Expect downtimes of one to two hours for both web and drupal during that weekend.
June 23rd: the addresses 199.58.80.* will all officially routable in the rack. The current IP addresses stay functional. Migration of DNS "glue records" to use the IP. By the end of the day, ns2.resist.ca points to 199.58.80.100.
June 23rd: Modification of DNS "A" records to point to the new IP addresses (199.58.80.*). Traffic progressively switches to the new IP during the week.
July 13 and 14th: We transfer data over for mail, lists and smtp, and get the new server running. We'll be "freezing" content of each server for a short while, to get everything in sync, and then we'll just switch over. Expect downtimes of one to two hours for mail, and smtp on that weekend. We maintain redirection on the old IPs to make sure we can contact folks that didn't transfer the IPs over.
July 19th: we "officially" close operation at the Vancouver datacenter. We'll "technically" be getting the redirection gear somewhere along the 24th of July or something.

It is essential that by June 23rd you understand this process and that you engage into the reconfiguration of your domains if appropriate.

If the intervention should be delayed or take longer than expected, we will update the offline status page.

Don't hesitate to notify us of any issues at help@resist.ca

System Status

All is well. Well...except that whole capitalism issue.

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