Hi again,
Indeed. Assuming WMDE isn't planning on not having
any web servers, their
existing web server for wikimedia.de can keep redirecting tools.wikimedia.de
to
toolserver.org. No changes necessary.
So okay, not making any change to the DNS entry is completely okay for
me. WMF ops then have to decide about the SSL certificate question.
If WMDE really wants to remove them, they could point
that subdomain to
WMF servers and have WMF do the redirect and simply don't provide an SSL
certificate. E.g. WMF would use a self-signed certificate or an invalid one
like
the one for
wikipedia.org, WMF does this all the time for old or unused
domains:
wikipedia.com
*
https://www.wikipedia.com/
wikimediacommons.org
*
https://wikimediacommons.org/
And if we really really want, one could purchase a separate certificate for
just
tools.wikimedia.org (so that the wildcard one isn't needed) and transfer
only
that to WMF.
For me, it is important that I don't have to deal with that domain any
longer. Simply keeping the CNAME causes on work at all. If you at WMF
want to handle the certificate question in the future, you can go
ahead. At the Hackathon, I understood that Coren is no fan of such a
solution though.
Best, Silke
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Silke Meyer
Internes IT-Management und Projektmanagement Toolserver
Wikimedia Deutschland e.V. | Tempelhofer Ufer 23-24 | 10963 Berlin
Tel. (030) 219 158 260
http://wikimedia.de
Wikimedia Deutschland - Gesellschaft zur Förderung Freien Wissens e.V.
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unter der Nummer 23855 B. Als gemeinnützig anerkannt durch das
Finanzamt für Körperschaften I Berlin, Steuernummer 27/681/51985.