Re: [Tails-dev] IP change of tails.boum.org

Heya,

On Thu, May 06, 2021 at 10:59:59AM -0500, sajolida wrote:
> tails-sysadmins@???:
> > We're planning an IP address change for our main server, to be done in
> > the 2nd week of June (7th-11th) 2021.
> >
> > Please avoid relying on the server and expect some outage during those
> > days.
>
> I understand that our users will be affected in a similar way as they
> were this week-end: broken upgrades and broken /home.

Not so much, I expect a fair bit of unstability coming from DNS changes,
but onion services should be up and running again within minutes after
the IP change.


> I think that your team should at least communicate about this in real
> time on Twitter. I won't be doing this communication in real time with
> you but I can help you to make sure that you can use our Twitter account
> on that day.

That'd be cool.


> If you expect the outage to last from more than a few hours, maybe we
> should also consider other ways of warning people in advance, maybe with
> another short blog post posted the week before and sent to amnesia-news.
>
> What do you think?

Sounds good, though I don't expect outage much longer than an hour.

x,
l.