[tech] [wheel] ucc.asn.au

James Arcus jimbo at ucc.asn.au
Thu Mar 26 18:18:03 AWST 2020


I wasn't aware of that, actually. You raise a good point.

James

On 26/3/20 6:03 pm, Andrew Williams wrote:
> On 2020-03-26 3:26 PM, James Arcus wrote:
>
>> As a student club on campus, UCC is "affiliated" to the Guild. We 
>> remain a distinct organisation, albeit subject to  their rules for 
>> affiliated clubs. At one point in time, UCC and the Guild shared a 
>> network segment (130.95.100.0/24); that is no longer the case. Our IT 
>> systems are now completely separated.
>>
>> As an artefact of the legacy setup, our UWA DNS zones 
>> (ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au and ucc.guild.uwa.edu.au) exist under Guild 
>> subdomains, but are controlled separately and until now have been 
>> completely delegated to us. (NB: "gu" is short for Guild of 
>> Undergraduates, the old name of the Guild.)
>
> You realise that the 'shared' network segment is because it started as 
> the UCC segment, and then we started providing network services to the 
> guild? This was long before the guild had any IT people on staff, or 
> computers. UCC moved into Cameron Hall around 1990, but not into the 
> current room - we had a much smaller room, and our being there was on 
> condition that we ran the guild computer lab in the adjoining room.
>
> It might be worth pointing this out as part of the tenancy appeal 
> process...
>
> Andrew


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