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- Path: sparky!uunet!gator!larry
- From: larry@gator.use.com (Larry Snyder)
- Subject: Re: uunet down
- Message-ID: <Bznz5p.4uL@gator.use.com>
- Organization: Gator Communications - Feeds-R-Us 219-289-3745
- References: <BzL76r.B1C@gator.use.com> <overlord.0n6w@megalith.miami.fl.us>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:05:48 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- overlord@megalith.miami.fl.us (Carlos Amezaga [Postmaster]) writes:
-
- > I called UUNET up myself on Sunday. UUNET is usually down
- >until 2pm, but this Sunday it took longer. I spoke to Eric and he
- >said they were performing a System Upgrade. This would explain
- >things. It went back up at around 8 or 9pm. It would be nice if
- >they would have announced it on uunet.general or some such.
-
- It appears that my version of nntpd spawned a bug in their inn
- news server in regards to sending the same article over and over.
-
- uunet noticed this, and corrected this early Sunday morning,
- but then they went down around 8 for maintenance. News started
- flowing again from and to uunet via nntp early Monday morning.
-
- I know they go down every Sunday (I was using them as my primary
- namesever, now I use another site) which is a pain (I'm not quite
- sure why a news machine would need to go down every Sunday -- we
- don't backup news -- that's what nntp is for (grin)).
-
- At least with multiple nntp feeds, we still get a good percentage
- of the traffic (nntp operates in IHAVE/SENDME mode where as sites
- compare headers prior to sending articles (in ASCII) to avoid
- duplicates)..
-
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- Larry Snyder internet: larry@gator.use.com
- keeper of the Gator uucp: uunet!gator!larry
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