Re: Request for information on use of FRED for registry management

I have seen your posts on FRED installation on Ubunthu. At .mw we did not choose Ubuntu, we started with fedora and now use CentOs as our FRED platform, we find it much more stable and we have gained considerable experience on this. I expect that if you move to CentOs 8 then you will find installing FRED much smoother and I can help better.

I would also recommend you to attend an ICANN meeting where you can interact more interactively with other FRED users and FRED developers so as to get on the spot answers to your issues. ICANN76 is the next one in March 2023. You can then check to see who at .cz or on fred-users list will be there and arrange a meeting.

We find FRED to be very good at .mw but it is a large well organised platform and where you are now is very much at the beginning, there will be many more issues for you to deal with as you make it operational. Using the mailing list alone may not work in full. If you can get past the installation phase such as on Centos8 then the documentation now available on FRED might get you through the rest.

Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2023 10:27:44 From: Dr Paulos Nyirenda <paulos(a)sdnp.org.mw> To: ZISPA DNS Admin <admin(a)zispa.org.zw>zw>, fred-users(a)lists.nic.cz Cc: domains(a)registrar.mw, Jaromir Talir <jaromir.talir(a)nic.cz>cz>, Jan Horak <horak(a)gransy.com> Subject: Re: Request for information on use of FRED for registry management On 23 Jan 2023 at 21:35, ZISPA DNS Admin wrote: Thanks for the introduction. I do remember Rob very well in the fidonet days and I have heard of you but I cannot put a face to your name, all the same good to hear from you. It is good to hear the apparently good story of your running .co.zw that you tell here below. We at Malawi .mw used to do what you are doing manually with the registry over six years ago before we fully automated to FRED, It was a growing mamoth task to do like this manually. You just have to automate better. Here below are my suggestions. I have seen your posts on FRED installation on Ubunthu. At .mw we did not choose Ubuntu, we started with fedora and now use CentOs as our FRED platform, we find it much more stable and we have gained considerable experience on this. I expect that if you move to CentOs 8 then you will find installing FRED much smoother and I can help better. I got considerable assistance from Jaromir of .cz as copied above, its possible that you can do the same if you send him mail personally rather that through the mailing list. In many cases in the past, I have received assistance from the fred-users mailing list BUT I am not sure why you have not received any assistnce either from .cz ccTLD or from FRED developers on the mailing list. I would also recommend you to attend an ICANN meeting where you can interact more interactively with other FRED users and FRED developers so as to get on the spot answers to your issues. ICANN76 is the next one in March 2023. You can then check to see who at .cz or on fred-users list will be there and arrange a meeting. I am also copying this to Jan Horak who runs one of our registrars on .mw, you may also find it useful to get in touch with him regarding FRED and registrars. We find FRED to be very good at .mw but it is a large well organised platform and where you are now is very much at the beginning, there will be many more issues for you to deal with as you make it operational. Using the mailing list alone may not work in full. If you can get past the installation phase such as on Centos8 then the documentation now available on FRED might get you through the rest. Let me know if this helps. Regards, Paulos ===================================== Dr Paulos B Nyirenda NIC.MW & .mw ccTLD: http://www.nic.mw SDNP: http://www.sdnp.org.mw Tel: +265-(0)-882 089 166 Cell: +265-(0)-888-824787 WhatsApp: +265-(0)-887386433