First off, I feel like I might be sending this to the wrong list, so if that's the case, my apologies.
I'm in the process of setting up a mastodon server for lispers with all of the turmoil going on around twitter, etc. I am curious if there is any interest in having it associated with common-lisp.net.
I will cover all costs associated with running the server - in fact it would only consist of pointing a cname or a record to the appropriate name or address, but I need to know the name before I pull the trigger on getting it running. It seems like the sort of thing that might be appropriate, but maybe I'm wrong.
On Nov 11, 2022, at 10:16, Clint Moore clint@ivy.io wrote:
First off, I feel like I might be sending this to the wrong list, so if that's the case, my apologies.
I'm in the process of setting up a mastodon server for lispers with all of the turmoil going on around twitter, etc. I am curious if there is any interest in having it associated with common-lisp.net.
I will cover all costs associated with running the server - in fact it would only consist of pointing a cname or a record to the appropriate name or address, but I need to know the name before I pull the trigger on getting it running. It seems like the sort of thing that might be appropriate, but maybe I'm wrong.
Hey Clint,
What do you need from the CLF for such a service? A
yours, Mark
On Nov 11, 2022, at 10:16, Clint Moore clint@ivy.io wrote:
I will cover all costs associated with running the server - in fact it would only consist of pointing a cname or a record to the appropriate name or address, but I need to know the name before I pull the trigger on getting it running. It seems like the sort of thing that might be appropriate, but maybe I'm wrong.
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What sort of CNAME would you want?
What do you need from the CLF for such a service?
An A or CNAME record.
What sort of CNAME would you want?
I'd probably let the community decide the name, though mastodon|fediverse|etc.common-lisp.net come to mind. I can be pretty bad at naming things though, so I'm all ears for suggestions.
An example of what I'd run is at cons.ivy.io - I set it up this past weekend thinking that there was no interest from the CLF collectively. I still haven't changed much of the design and am absolutely open to suggestions about the design, graphics, etc.
On Nov 14, 2022, at 22:07, Clint Moore clint@ivy.io wrote:
What do you need from the CLF for such a service?
An A or CNAME record.
What sort of CNAME would you want?
I'd probably let the community decide the name, though mastodon|fediverse|etc.common-lisp.net come to mind. I can be pretty bad at naming things though, so I'm all ears for suggestions.
An example of what I'd run is at cons.ivy.io - I set it up this past weekend thinking that there was no interest from the CLF collectively. I still haven't changed much of the design and am absolutely open to suggestions about the design, graphics, etc.
Clint,
We’d be happy to give ya use of any name you want in *.common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/. Probably best to do with A/AAAA records as I don’t think one can actually CNAME “across domains”.
I’ve been a bit under the weather the past week, but should be better now.
yours, Mark
Point of fact, you can CNAME to alternate domains (this is how cloud hosting typically works) -- the issue is what X.509 Certificate needs to match what the client is expecting (typically the CNAME or a wildcard for the domain the CNAME is in) to preclude TLS issues.
— jb On Nov 21, 2022 at 10:21 -0500, Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com, wrote:
On Nov 14, 2022, at 22:07, Clint Moore clint@ivy.io wrote:
What do you need from the CLF for such a service?
An A or CNAME record.
What sort of CNAME would you want?
I'd probably let the community decide the name, though mastodon|fediverse|etc.common-lisp.net come to mind. I can be pretty bad at naming things though, so I'm all ears for suggestions.
An example of what I'd run is at cons.ivy.io - I set it up this past weekend thinking that there was no interest from the CLF collectively. I still haven't changed much of the design and am absolutely open to suggestions about the design, graphics, etc.
Clint,
We’d be happy to give ya use of any name you want in *.common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/. Probably best to do with A/AAAA records as I don’t think one can actually CNAME “across domains”.
I’ve been a bit under the weather the past week, but should be better now.
yours, Mark
-- "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare to it now."
Apologies, for I mis-stated something when I said "this is typically how cloud hosting works" -- it's actually how hosting multiple servers on the same host works (which existed prior to large cloud providers). As long as you provide an X.509 cert for the domain that is expected, things will work out fine.
I also forgot to add, regardless of whether it's a CNAME or straight up A/AAAA records, I think Clint will need an X.509 certificate (the public key portion) for presenting to clients and the associated private key and password to setup TLS sessions for that particular hostname within that domain.
— jb On Nov 21, 2022 at 10:21 -0500, Mark Evenson evenson@panix.com, wrote:
On Nov 14, 2022, at 22:07, Clint Moore clint@ivy.io wrote:
What do you need from the CLF for such a service?
An A or CNAME record.
What sort of CNAME would you want?
I'd probably let the community decide the name, though mastodon|fediverse|etc.common-lisp.net come to mind. I can be pretty bad at naming things though, so I'm all ears for suggestions.
An example of what I'd run is at cons.ivy.io - I set it up this past weekend thinking that there was no interest from the CLF collectively. I still haven't changed much of the design and am absolutely open to suggestions about the design, graphics, etc.
Clint,
We’d be happy to give ya use of any name you want in *.common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/. Probably best to do with A/AAAA records as I don’t think one can actually CNAME “across domains”.
I’ve been a bit under the weather the past week, but should be better now.
yours, Mark
-- "A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before but there is nothing to compare to it now."
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