When the radio stations first moved into our current facility, I made liberal use of the kgon.com domain to name machines that lived on the “public” side of the network. Now that we’re moving to a Sprint T1 on that side, I’m taking the opportunity to rename the internet-accessible servers. What few machines are making the transition from the old network to the new are also getting a new domain: entercomradio.com.

Okay, so I didn’t have much choice. In order to migrate the old names we’d need to spend $45 a shot. Thanks, but no thanks. I’d rather make a clean sweep of things anyway, when you get right down to it.

Anyway. Washuu is now TheLab, Mihoshi is now GXP, and Lancelot has been replaced by Mass. Also, Duckpond and Nestegg will instead be known as Souja and Shunga. (Hey, nobody’s going to be typing in those URLs but me, so who cares what they’re called?)

Why yes, I am still working that Tenchi Muyo naming scheme. If you don’t like it, go build your own damned network. So there. Nyah.

IN OTHER NEWS, Mass has a working Apache/PHP/MySQL rig, a cron system, and the beginnings of a traffic graphing system. The proxies seem to be working, email relaying remains to be tested, and I still haven’t started on that pesky firewall. (I should probably get on that, since I can’t migrate Ryoko, Zero, and the other machines off of the public side of the network until I have port-forwarding working.)

I’m only going to spend a couple more hours on that graphing nonsense tomorrow. Cacti is giving me trouble with SNMP, and that’s the part I really need. If I can’t suss out the problem in short order I’ll scrap that project and move on to the firewall. I can always put the traffic graphing system onto GXP if push comes to shove.

IN CLOSING, I’m aware that this has become a bit of a geekblog. Sorry ’bout that. Hey, it’s this or suffer more long stretches with almost no content. Work has completely absorbed my life lately, minus the occasional anime convention or visit with my cool friends. If all goes well, I’ll be back to my usual random nonsense by month’s end.

What do you mean, that wouldn’t be much of a change? Feh. Some people’s kids.