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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>So realistically</span> the <span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>"Expanded Security Maintenance" is free for up to 5 machines (on one ubuntu account) ! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>For more you need to pay…. or open another account.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I have seen even Ubuntu 12.x is still installed and working on some servers, some companies.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>A lot of reasons why it happens, starting from “this old machine never touched for 10 years” to “the old administrator did it, and it still works”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Please also keep in mind that one of the method of updating is rising versions on current server than migrate to newer kernel/server. You cut that way with deleting all files (not only the repo), just because your personal opinion tells you what is “realistic”… it is sad. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Also is bad that you don’t have the “archives” for old files </span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>☹</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>So you can delete from PDNS REPO server for disable automatic installation via “apt” for example, but you should leave the .deb packages for manual installation via dpkg ! <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Please, need help with files. Not the discussion of personal opinions.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BTW, just a week ago the files and Repo for Ubuntu 16.x and 18.x were on your server ! <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If I know you delete all on weekend up to Ubuntu 20.x , I should download all files immediately <span style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Hope for understanding,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If somebody have the files, please share.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Alex.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Pdns-users <pdns-users-bounces@mailman.powerdns.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Laura Smith via Pdns-users<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 04, 2023 5:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> All about using and deploying powerdns <pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com><br><b>Cc:</b> Laura Smith <n5d9xq3ti233xiyif2vp@protonmail.ch><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Pdns-users] PDNS repos request<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Well, it does clearly say .... "</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue",serif;color:#333333;background:white'>Once a distribution version reaches end of its support (5 years for Ubuntu LTS releases, ~3 years for Debian releases, etc.) we will stop providing packages for it"</span><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Ubuntu 18.04 is not current anymore. LTS updates stopped earlier this year. The only people getting updates are those on "Expanded Security Maintenance" (i.e. paying Ubuntu on a contract, so realistically not many people).<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>I can totally understand <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'>Sent with <a href="https://proton.me/" target="_blank">Proton Mail</a> secure email. <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>------- Original Message -------<br>On Tuesday, October 3rd, 2023 at 18:38, Alex Pavlov via Pdns-users <<a href="mailto:pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com">pdns-users@mailman.powerdns.com</a>> wrote:<br><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>Hello To all PDNS admins,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>Recently the older PDNS repos were deleted from official PDNS Repo website. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>The distros for Ubuntu 16.x (Xenial) and 18.x (Bionic) were wiped out without any link to “archives” or “old releases”.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>I can understand that releses like Ubuntu 16.x and older might be really outdated…. But for 18.x Ubuntu it is still so many people using it in production !</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>The options for compiling the required build or upgrade to newer Ubuntu kernel not always working in real world, where we have other packages/software running </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>on same server or required libraries sometimes in conflict with other versions. – this is explanation to those who have “smart advices” install everyrthing on newer/supported server version.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>Asking for help all PDNS society to share the deleted Ubuntu 18.x Bionic packages with me </span><span lang=LV style='font-family:"Segoe UI Emoji",sans-serif'>😊</span><span lang=LV> (need all versions of pdns, pdns-backend, pdns-recursor, dnsdist, pdns-tools)</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>If somebody have it in files saved, share it please in any reasonable way like: FTP, MEGA downloads, or any other file sharing service.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>Thank you,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>Alex.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV>Contact to: <a href="mailto:admin@livas.lv" target="_blank">admin@livas.lv</a></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span lang=LV> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>