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24 Led
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On 23 Jan 2023 at 21:35, ZISPA DNS Admin wrote:
Hi Paulos
I don't know if you will remember me from the early days of the
Internet. I took over from Rob Borland in managing the Mango email
service here in Zimbabwe. Then in 2004 I became the system
administrator of ZISPA which is responsible for the .co.zw domain name
registry. I have managed it ever since.
Thanks for the introduction. I do remember Rob very well in the fidonet days and I have
heard of you but I cannot put a face to your name, all the same good to hear from you.
It is good to hear the apparently good story of your running .co.zw that you tell here
below.
We at Malawi .mw used to do what you are doing manually with the registry over six years
ago before we fully automated to FRED, It was a growing mamoth task to do like this
manually. You just have to automate better. Here below are my suggestions.
I have seen your posts on FRED installation on Ubunthu. At .mw we did not choose Ubuntu,
we started with fedora and now use CentOs as our FRED platform, we find it much more
stable and we have gained considerable experience on this.
I expect that if you move to CentOs 8 then you will find installing FRED much smoother and
I
can help better.
I got considerable assistance from Jaromir of .cz as copied above, its possible that you
can
do the same if you send him mail personally rather that through the mailing list. In many
cases in the past, I have received assistance from the fred-users mailing list BUT I am
not
sure why you have not received any assistnce either from .cz ccTLD or from FRED
developers on the mailing list.
I would also recommend you to attend an ICANN meeting where you can interact more
interactively with other FRED users and FRED developers so as to get on the spot answers
to your issues. ICANN76 is the next one in March 2023. You can then check to see who at
.cz or on fred-users list will be there and arrange a meeting.
I am also copying this to Jan Horak who runs one of our registrars on .mw, you may also
find
it useful to get in touch with him regarding FRED and registrars.
We find FRED to be very good at .mw but it is a large well organised platform and where
you
are now is very much at the beginning, there will be many more issues for you to deal with
as
you make it operational. Using the mailing list alone may not work in full. If you can get
past
the installation phase such as on Centos8 then the documentation now available on FRED
might get you through the rest.
Let me know if this helps.
Regards,
Paulos
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Dr Paulos B Nyirenda
NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD: http://www.nic.mw
SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw
Tel: +265-(0)-882 089 166
Cell: +265-(0)-888-824787
WhatsApp: +265-(0)-887386433
The .co.zw registry has over 40 000 domains. On
average there are
around 100 domain updates per day, seven days a week. At the moment
registrars submit applications for new domains by template. However
modifications, transfers and deletions can also be processed in bulk
by submitting files with the lists of domains concerned.
Templates and bulk applications are handled by scripts that I have
written. They update the .co.zw zone file and send notifies to the
secondaries. With these scripts I can process and reply to an
application within 20 seconds if it is straightforward. So at the
moment the system (which I operate on my own) is quite capable of
handling well over a hundred updates on a busy day. However obviously
this is not going to be viable in the long term and so I am very keen
to migrate the system to an automated one such as FRED, with the
registrars connecting by EPP instead of sending templates to me by
email.
Unfortunately I have failed in my attempts to install FRED for test
purposes, due to incompatible dependency issues, in spite of following
the very detailed instructions at
https://fred.nic.cz/documentation/html/AdminManual/Installation/BinsUb
untu.html
I have registered for the "fred-users" mailing list and submitted the
details of the problem I have experienced with the installation, but
have not had any response. I will send you a copy separately.
I understand that you are using FRED for the .mw registry. I wonder if
you would therefore be able to give me some advice on the steps you
took to install the software yourself, or simply point out the error
in the steps that I have taken so far. Your help would be most
appreciated.
I was interested to read that you obtained your PhD from UNSW, so
would like to greet you as a fellow UNSW graduate, although in my case
it was a mere bachelor degree - BE (Mech Eng) Hons 1.
Currently
Regards
Jim Holland
System Administrator
Mango, operating on behalf of ZISPA
Managers of Zimbabwe's .co.zw domain name registry
Web: www.zispa.org.zw
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