[tor-bugs] #33276 [Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin Team]: decomission listera

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#33276: decomission listera
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     Reporter:  anarcat                          |      Owner:  tpa
         Type:  task                             |     Status:  new
     Priority:  High                             |  Milestone:
    Component:  Internal Services/Tor Sysadmin   |    Version:
  Team                                           |   Keywords:  tpa-
     Severity:  Major                            |  roadmap-march
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       Points:  1                                |   Reviewer:
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 listera is probably our oldest server. our install dates at least from
 2012, but the hardware itself is rumored to be as old as 2007, a whopping
 13 years ago. it has all sorts of problems from nagios complaining about
 fans to weird hardware requirements (see the `proliant` class in puppet
 for an example).

 decomissioning that server would simplify our work and remove a possibly
 unreliable point of failure from the infrastructure.

 according to LDAP, it is part of the www.tpo, archive.tpo and media.tpo
 rotations, and is possibly a nameserver.

 it might be worth rebuilding a server like this in a completely unrelated
 location, since it's one of those precious machines that does not live
 inside an existing cluster.

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