{"id":242,"date":"2026-10-23T02:52:58","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willaford.com\/?p=242"},"modified":"2026-10-23T02:52:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T02:52:58","slug":"finishing-the-migration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/?p=242","title":{"rendered":"Finishing the migration."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes, Lightsail wants to hold the DNS zone.  Setting the nameserver to the lightsail NS fixed the split brain, allowing Lightsail to understand that StaticIP2 == StaticIP2 long enough to set the Let&#8217;s Encryp SSL\/TLS certification<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What remains to be seen is whether this breaks the mail routing. Wait, as I&#8217;m editing, I see &#8220;updating failed, could not get a valid response from the server&#8230; I wonder&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Haha &#8212; now Site took too long to respond.  Maybe I celebrate too soo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">nslookup willaford.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"498\" src=\"https:\/\/willaford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2-1024x498.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-245\" srcset=\"https:\/\/willaford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2-1024x498.png 1024w, https:\/\/willaford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2-300x146.png 300w, https:\/\/willaford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2-767x373.png 767w, https:\/\/willaford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2-1536x747.png 1536w, https:\/\/willaford.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/image-2.png 1830w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But load willaford.com in a browser, and everything works. OK. Let&#8217;s check email from the wordpress admin console.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Email not working, then site not working again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Change something [anything, just click some buttons&#8230;really {not really, but I forgot what  clicked}] and site starts working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Checking email again: no evidence of success, no evidence of failure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yes, Lightsail wants to hold the DNS zone. Setting the nameserver to the lightsail NS fixed the split brain, allowing Lightsail to understand that StaticIP2 == StaticIP2 long enough to set the Let&#8217;s Encryp SSL\/TLS certification What remains to be seen is whether this breaks the mail routing. Wait, as I&#8217;m editing, I see &#8220;updating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":246,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willaford.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}