From ea6db09fbdad2252722ccce48bbb52204cb4d7c5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Antoine=20Beaupr=C3=A9?= <anarcat@debian.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2021 13:19:20 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] notice what happens when we pick a name too long
---
howto/new-machine.md | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/howto/new-machine.md b/howto/new-machine.md
index 8e1d7f14..15f4490a 100644
--- a/howto/new-machine.md
+++ b/howto/new-machine.md
@@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ taken by the installer:
fab -H root@38.229.82.108 host.rewrite-hosts chi-node-05.torproject.org 38.229.82.108
+ WARNING: The short hostname (e.g. `foo` in `foo.example.com`) MUST
+ NOT be longer than 21 characters, as that will crash the backup
+ server because its label will be too long:
+
+ Sep 24 17:14:45 bacula-director-01 bacula-dir[1467]: Config error: name torproject-static-gitlab-shim-source.torproject.org-full.${Year}-${Month:p/2/0/r}-${Day:p/2/0/r}_${Hour:p/2/0/r}:${Minute:p/2/0/r} length 130 too long, max is 127
+
3. a public IP address has been set and the host is available over
SSH on that IP address. this can be fixed with:
--
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