Domain setup changes [action required]

[Eduardo Pinheiro]

Hello Upspinners,

As previously announced, if you have set up a DNS TXT record as part of upspin setupdomain prior to March 17th, then your DNS TXT record is now old and will no longer be honored by the keyserver for the purposes of adding new users to a domain with upspin user -put (the default method, however, upspin signup will always work).

To fix your old TXT record, take the following steps:

As the user who created the domain originally, run upspin setupdomain again. If your default user is not the one who you want to own the domain, include the flag -config=<path/to/owner>/config in the command:

cmd/upspin [-config=...] setupdomain -domain=<DOMAIN> -where=/tmp

This will create new keys in /tmp, but they can be safely discarded.

It will also generate a new entry to be put in your DNS TXT field. It will look something like this:

upspin:c7baba0ac3f148a...-...8ff

This record should replace your old DNS TXT record.

Here’s what it looks like when using Google Domains as the registrar:

In the example above, there is another, unrelated TXT entry. It is fine if there are other entries. But for Upspin, there should only be one with prefix “upspin:”.

That’s all.

Thanks.