Re: [Micronet] Migration of campus mailing lists last week

The move mainly was just to a different server. However,
we hacked the address comparison code in Majordomo so that:

        xxx@berkeley.edu
        xxx@uclink.berkeley.edu
        xxx@uclink2.berkeley.edu
        xxx@uclink3.berkeley.edu
        xxx@uclink4.berkeley.edu

are considered equivalent. This means that posting and
subscribe/unsubscribe requests should not bounce if the
current return address is xxx@berkeley and the subscriber
address is xxx@uclink.berkeley.edu, etc.

        - Jerry Berkman

On Tue, 8 Jun 2004, Aron Roberts wrote:

> In preparation for the move of the campus Data Center from Evans
> Hall to 2195 Hearst later this month, campus mailing lists that were
> hosted on the old, UCLink cluster - including the Micronet and MAGNet
> lists - were migrated last Wednesday, June 3, 2004, to a new
> rack-mounted Dell server. (For more on the impending Data Center
> move, please see
> <http://inews.berkeley.edu:7077/channels/iNews/dcmove/>.)
>
> The migration, performed by a number of my colleagues in IST's
> Workstation Support Services and Central Computing Services
> departments, was intended to be transparent, and appears so far to
> have gone very smoothly. If you should notice any problems with the
> Micronet or MAGNet lists in the aftermath of this migration, please
> let me know, and I'll promptly get in touch with the CalMail folks to
> resolve them.
>
> Details regarding the migration
> -------------------------------
> All mailing lists previously hosted on the old UCLink cluster were
> affected by this migration, both simple reflector-type lists and
> lists administered through the majordomo list server. These are the
> lists that you might readily associate with hostnames such as
> lists.berkeley.edu (the canonical name), listlink.berkeley.edu,
> uclink.berkeley.edu, and uclink4.berkeley.edu.
>
> This migration was solely to a new host (i.e. new hardware and
> operating system), not to new mailing list software. For now, the
> Micronet and MAGNet lists will continue to be handled by Majordomo
> 1.94.5. After the dust settles - both figuratively and literally -
> from the Data Center migration, it is expected that a new mailing
> list management package will be implemented on the campus's central
> email system, CalMail, later this year. GNU Mailman and Sympa are
> among the candidate packages under consideration.
>
> The migration was intended to be transparent. Both mail to the
> lists and management of list memberships should continue to be
> handled exactly as before. (The only visible difference should be
> that the temporary hostname "listtest.berkeley.edu" has been
> appearing in certain message headers; following a DNS change
> scheduled for tomorrow, 2004-06-09, this hostname will change to
> "lists.berkeley.edu".)
>
> Aron Roberts
> Workstation Software Support Group
>
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> For information about Micronet, including subscribing to
> or unsubscribing from its mailing list and finding out
> about upcoming meetings, please visit the Micronet Web site:
> <http://micronet.berkeley.edu/>.
>

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