Re: spamassassin.org was broken ... for a few weeks ...

[Justin Mason <jm...@jmason.org>]

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Theo Van Dinter writes:
> /var/named/spamassassin.org had:
> 
> <<<<<<< .mine
> $INCLUDE /var/named/spamassassin.org.d/soa_line
> =======
> ; see "directory layout" at EOF
> $INCLUDE /var/named/spamassassin.org.d/soa_line
> >>>>>>> .r358190

Guess who did that.  sorry! ;)

I wonder if SVN has a way to be smart about this kind of "conflict",
and just overwrite the .mine versions always.  Of course, the real
fix is for me to notice when this happens.

- --j.

> caused named to not load the zone file.  Prodding the logs, the errors
> started:
> 
> Dec 22 01:33:21 spamassassin.zones.apache.org sudo: [ID 702911 local2.notice]
> updatesd : TTY=pts/2 ; PWD=/home
> /updatesd/svn/spamassassin ; USER=root ; COMMAND=/usr/sbin/rndc reload
> Dec 22 01:33:21 spamassassin.zones.apache.org named[23577]: [ID 873579
> daemon.info] loading configuration from '/etc/named.conf'
> Dec 22 01:33:21 spamassassin.zones.apache.org named[23577]: [ID 873579
> daemon.warning] dns_master_load: spamassassin.org:4: unknown RR type '.mine'
> Dec 22 01:33:21 spamassassin.zones.apache.org named[23577]: [ID 873579
> daemon.error] zone spamassassin.org/IN: loading master file spamassassin.org: unknown class/type
> 
> Please be careful with the DNS stuff.  The SOA record kept the info
> working on the secondaries for a while (around 1w) which is why things
> generally worked up until around the 30th or so.  I was wondering why my
> nightly runs weren't happening...
> 
> I wonder if we should talk to the infra folks to see about getting
> zone/pmc-specific nagios monitoring/alerting setup.  They shouldn't be
> bothered with stuff in our zone being down (though they should if the
> zone itself is down), but it'd be nice for us not to have to setup a
> whole monitoring infrastructure since they already have one.
> 
> -- 
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