Local DNS problem: ftp.dsse pointing to wrong machine

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From: Stewart Brodie
Date: Thu, 23 May 1996 00:00

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This posting regards the disposition of the FreeNet Software Archive
stored on ftp.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk (which is far better accessed for
downloading via http://www.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk:8080/ or
strachey.ecs.soton.ac.uk:8080)

Due to internal reorganisation, the alias "ftp.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk" is
currently pointing at the wrong machine.   This means that you won't be
able to use that alias to access the archive until sometime on Saturday.
Until Saturday afternoon, please use "mccarthy.ecs.soton.ac.uk" instead
if you require FTP access during this time, and then switch back to the
alias "ftp.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk" on Saturday.

People using the correct "ftp.dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk" will find that
everything will work as before after this time.  People using the
incorrect "dsse.ecs.soton.ac.uk" or "louis.ecs.soton.ac.uk" will find
that it won't work at all.

(Technical version: DNS tables here are only rebuilt every night, and the
TTL is set to 24 hours.  Therefore if the DNS tables are rebuilt at some
unearthly hour on Friday morning, then it is possible for the old CNAME
record to be cached until Saturday morning.

--
Stewart Brodie, Electronics & Computer Science, Southampton University.
http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~snb94r/      http://delenn.ecs.soton.ac.uk/

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From: snb94r@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Stewart Brodie)
Subject: Local DNS problem: ftp.dsse pointing to wrong machine
Date: 1996/05/23
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