Top is the new box. Middle is the nameserver. Bottom 1U is the dying leftfield; below that is its giant box-o-disks. Even just one of the SATA disks in the new machine has more storage than everything in that ancient cabinet. Way less cool on the blinken lights scale, though.

The box is there & all your data is there, but it’s not on the internet directly. Disabling its contact with the outside world seemed to stop the constant rebooting. Either something is wrong with that particular network interface or something is tickled by its usual network activity. It’s up, however, and connected by its second interface on the LAN to its replacement.

The plan is to move user accounts & then rsync over all the data. That should be accomplished today. Meanwhile we’ll swap the new machine over to into leftfield’s place (right now it’s another IP address in our block). Then I find out how badly I messed up moving the configs. (Note optimism!) The misery should be over tomorrow.

As a next step, we remove the dead hardware from the colo. Then after that we’ll probably be moving to a new facility rather than the old one they’re trying to deprecate. We’ll give plenty of warning for that downtime, though.

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