On Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 11:16:16PM +0100, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 3:33 PM, dann frazier <dannf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > As Paul noted[1], parisc-linux.org was running a vulnerable
> > apache which got the attention of HP's security audit team. I've been
> > doing most of the maintenance of the OS on this machine for a while,
> > but that has just meant apt-get upgrading when cron-apt told me to for
> > a few years. Turns out apache-ssl was obsolete (an etch version!), so
> > no amount of upgrading was going to fix that.
> >
> > At this point I've removed apache-ssl. I tried installing apache2 to
> > see if any web pages would magically work - it didn't, so right now
> > the website is 404 farm :( I didn't spend much time trying to handle
> > that since.....
> >
> > parisc-linux.org is running the last stable release of Debian that
> > supported hppa ('lenny'), and its life is now expired. As such, I
> > think we really need to migrate the site to another maintained
> > distribution and/or architecture. I'm willing to help migrate services
> > for the next month or so - let's just say 2012.03.14 for a good round
> > (heh) date - after which I plan to halt this system and let HP know
> > the hardware can be put to other uses. From what I can tell, we
> > originally installed this system almost exactly 9 years ago - ah,
> > rememember its predecessor dsl2? Good times. Anyway -
> >
> > *************************************************************************
> > *** If you need any data off this machine, now's the time to grab it! ***
> > *************************************************************************
> >
> > If you'd like to take over longterm hosting the website/domain, please
> > get in touch with taggart or I. If you'd like to continue using the
> > machine and/or HP's network to do the hosting, I can probably find a
> > contact for you there - though I wouldn't bet on it.
> >
> > In the meantime, if anyone wants to get the website working on apache2
> > for the remainder of the system's lifetime, please let me know.
>
> Hi Dann,
>
> What's the status of @p-l.o email addresses? I'm receiving a fair bit
> of email on this domain, and I think others do too, if we need to move
> on elsewhere it'd be nice to have a little headstart... ;)
My assumption is that mail will follow the domain.
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