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Well, possibly I did it! God it's fun to make a break through. Not so much fun before that point though.
Now I have to wait to find out if I'm right or not. I believe I now have two running DNS servers (ns1.datamantic.com and ns2.datamantic.com.) I took an old domain not in use (but live on the server in ca) and pointed it at the datamantic.com name servers where I created a new zone file for the domain which points to the new server.
So when the the dns change I made (at the registrar where the domain was registered) propagates out through the global dns system people requesting that domain should start being redirected to the new server. Could be a few hours, or could be 2 days. Probably less than a day though.
Getting that to work is the most difficult, and least interesting task out of this whole project. So I will be very happy if this all works.
I just emailed my first question to the CentOS list. I've been lurking for a few months. Hopefully someone will answer instead of yelling at me for asking something stupid.
I reinstalled the OS. Was a little worried about disk druid and getting the partitions back in the same structure (without erasing the data on the big RAID5 volume!) But it seems like it worked out okay. Back at WHQ now and I can SSH in and see all the data. So now I'm back to where I was before yesterday. :-(
Now to try again.
Well my DNS setup is now completely FUBAR. Shit shit shit. I'm thinking about going to the data center and just reinstalling the OS, since I don't know how to gracefully back out of the mess I've made.
Google is about to roll out a major update to its' search algorithm. You can get a peak at the new system here. Are you still number n?