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- From: postman@uunet.uu.net (David C Lawrence)
- Subject: UUNET News Service Restored
- Approved: postman@uunet.uu.net
- Sender: postman
- Organization: UUNET Technologies, Inc
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 19:31:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <C1Kwvs.6E@uunet.uu.net>
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- UUNET's primary news server was down from 26 Jan 10:00 EST until
- 27 Jan 17:30 EST for emergency disc repair. Though most feeds were
- largely inactive during this time, none should have lost any articles.
-
- Attempting to rebuild the normal production disc seemed to be working
- fine, but it started self-destructing during the second verification pass.
- We then tried our back up discs, but a firmware bug in one of them became
- evident during the restoration of the spool. We finally moved on to yet
- another set of discs and the restoration was eventually successful.
-
- We apologize for any inconvenience that may have been caused by UUNET's
- absence from the network news business for 32 hours.
-