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karl@MCS.COM (Karl Denninger) writes:

>If you have problems accessing a site on the net, you should contact YOUR
>ISPs technical support department.

But other people would think they are alone in their problem.

>They can answer your questions -- that's what they are there for.

Anyway, a quick check for anyone who gets a refused connection or something
such as that, use the "nslookup" command.   

Find a unix prompt and type   `nslookup some.host.name' and see the output.
Then do  `nslookup some.host.name spruce.cic.net'  (or some other nameserver
in the domain that you are  trying to contact.  In this case you could do
`nslookup www.mcs.net'  then `nslookup www.mcs.net cerebus.mcs.net'

(That is if Karl hasn't changed the name server without letting Internic
know about it.)

Then, as I think more about it, a more practical approach, and an approach
that would have never started this silly thing is that a *TEMPORARY* page
was put on the old www server saying that 

"The web server has changed, you may experience difficulty in viewing pages.
Contact your local sysadmin and make them aware of this."

or some other little blurb to appease the masses... but I suppose that would
be asking too much from MCS administrators who have better things to do than
worry about people other than their own customer base.  Forget what I said. 
When you move houses, don't leave a forwarding address.. you have enough to
worry about moving yourself and your family.. why make it easier for everyone
else?

Have a happy day!

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