gearman.org is gone

[niftyhack]

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[esabol]

Bummer. @SpamapS, do you have an email address for @BrianAker ?

Well, it's still here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20240219140458/http://gearman.org/

Also:
https://web.archive.org/web/20211205082258/http://gearman.info/

[SpamapS]

I will fire off some emails to the parties that should own it. I'm not actually sure if it's Brian or Brad or @dormando. But in the meantime I think we can at least host it at gearmand.github.io with some settings changes. I'll poke at it soon.

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On Thu, Mar 28, 2024 at 11:26 AM Ed Sabol ***@***.***> wrote: Bummer. @SpamapS <https://github.com/SpamapS>, do you have an email address for @BrianAker <https://github.com/BrianAker> ? Well, it's still here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240219140458/http://gearman.org/ — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <#387 (comment)>, or unsubscribe <https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AADS6YDNEGXD3RGCBOSMKVTY2ROGBAVCNFSM6AAAAABFNCA3PKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDAMRVHA2TCNRYGE> . You are receiving this because you were mentioned.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[BrianAker]

I never owned the gearman.org domain name. It might have been/is owned by Dormando or Brad. — Brian

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On Mar 28, 2024, at 11:26, Ed Sabol ***@***.***> wrote: Bummer. @SpamapS <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/SpamapS&source=gmail-imap&ust=1712255202000000&usg=AOvVaw2CQke82ovNtjvsunSOgxYA>, do you have an email address for @BrianAker <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/BrianAker&source=gmail-imap&ust=1712255202000000&usg=AOvVaw1B6_u4U2N9Rof9GqCdwue3> ? Well, it's still here: https://web.archive.org/web/20240219140458/http://gearman.org/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219140458/http://gearman.org/&source=gmail-imap&ust=1712255202000000&usg=AOvVaw3OH1xivXsql5WMq2KPcsaA> — Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/gearman/gearmand/issues/387%23issuecomment-2025851681&source=gmail-imap&ust=1712255202000000&usg=AOvVaw1abm6CY1RqWaCm8EBSD52T>, or unsubscribe <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/AAACDXYCAAIFNBE2V6LZ5DDY2ROGBAVCNFSM6AAAAABFNCA3PKVHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZDAMRVHA2TCNRYGE&source=gmail-imap&ust=1712255202000000&usg=AOvVaw1mSt7TnV82kytKYh6k3fCq>. You are receiving this because you were mentioned.

[BrianAker]

The whois record shows that the domain is pointed at Linode's DNS infrastructure, which I did use years ago.

I suspect they must have done some sort of cleanup recently and purged a dangling reference to the domain.

If you know anyone who has a linode account, i.e. Akamai, you could probably just create a record in their DNS system and be good to go.

[SpamapS]

I grabbed gearman.io just in case and have temporarily moved the github pages to it. So for the moment, you can view the content at https://gearman.io

I'll continue to try and chase down who owns the domain and try to get some administrative control over it so we don't have more issues like this.

[esabol]

We also lost gearman.info well before this, according to the Wayback Machine, but it just hosted the gearmand documentation. I feel we should use GitHub for that, as in issue #141. I've been meaning to add a GitHub Action to do this, but issue #373 was an impediment last time I tried.

[esabol]

@SpamapS : If we can't get control of gearman.org back, the references to it in the repo will need to be changed to gearmand.io.

https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Agearman%2Fgearmand%20Gearman.org&type=code

[SpamapS]

Oh! I forgot about gearman.info. Thanks Ed. I'll take a look at the sphinx errors. 🤔

We really should get together and have an in-person summit some day to pull all of this stuff together. I ran into a textbook Gearman use case at work this week and I'm realizing it still has a place in modern architectures but we haven't done a great job of promoting it.

[esabol]

We also lost gearman.info well before this, according to the Wayback Machine, but it just hosted the gearmand documentation. I feel we should use GitHub for that, as in issue #141. I've been meaning to add a GitHub Action to do this, but issue #373 was an impediment last time I tried.

See PR #388. Feedback welcome.

[jimwins]

If you know anyone who has a linode account, i.e. Akamai, you could probably just create a record in their DNS system and be good to go.

It isn't quite that easy, Linode reports “DNS zone already exists.” if you try and do that, so whatever account it was previously attached to must exist in some sort of zombie state.

Looks like the gearman.org registration doesn't lapse until 2029, so somebody may have sprung for a 10-year renewal some years ago. You can dig up a contact email through whois.gandi.net, maybe it will reach whoever is still hanging on to it.

[esabol]

You can dig up a contact email through whois.gandi.net, maybe it will reach whoever is still hanging on to it.

OK, I emailed the registrant through gandi.net.

[bradfitz]

I own gearman.org still and have it paid up until 2029. It's still pointing at Linode as that's where I believe I was last told to point it.

Where should it point now?

I'm also happy to create a Route 53 zone for it if you only have IPs.

[SpamapS]

Hi Brad. We need gearman.org to be setup for GitHub pages. See https://docs.github.com/en/pages/configuring-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site/managing-a-custom-domain-for-your-github-pages-site for the A and AAAA records to make that happen. It should be relatively static after that. Thanks!

[bradfitz]

k, moved DNS back to Route 53 (where it was years ago) at roots:

ns-1784.awsdns-31.co.uk.
ns-18.awsdns-02.com.
ns-1400.awsdns-47.org.
ns-905.awsdns-49.net.

And created the A and AAAA records there.

I have no access to do things here on GitHub of course, so hopefully y'all pressed the right buttons on this side.

I didn't create records for "www." because https://gearman.org is the old (and better :)) URL, but let me know if you need them for some reason.

[SpamapS]

Thanks Brad, as of a minute ago, it's working! Others please verify and we can close this.

[esabol]

Thanks, @bradfitz!

http://gearman.org/ is working great! My web browser is complaining about the certificate for https://gearman.org/ though. Not sure why.

[SpamapS]

New TLS certs take 15 minutes or so to propagate. Try again later and it should work OK.

[SpamapS]

I changed gearman.io to redirect to gearman.org just in case anyone saved it in this brief window.

[niftyhack]

A big thank you to everyone involved.

[SpamapS]

The website looks good ,and I also noticed we had some http:// links, but now they're either schemaless or https, so you should get the shield on every page.

[esabol]

Well, gearman.info seems to have been taken over by some Indonesian gambling site. sigh