long@ittatc.ATC.ITT.UUCP (H. Morrow Long [Systems Center]) (07/15/85)
UUCP CHANGES AT ITT ATC
ITTVAX/WXLVAX MERGER
NEW SITE ITTATC
Ittvax (formerly of Stratford, CT) absorbed Wxlvax this weekend in a
friendly merger. The new Ittvax is a 4.2bsd Vax 11/780 with 8 Megabytes of
memory and 3 Gigabytes of fast disk storage. It will no longer be
directly accessible by direct dialin lines but a DEC Vax 11/730 (4.2bsd
w 2MB) frontend will act as our USENET/UUCP gateway. Mail destined for
the users of 'wxlvax' will continue to reach the proper people.
Our dialin phone number for 'ittatc' (the Vax 11/730) will be
the former ittvax number X-(XXX)-XXX-XXXX. This is the first
number of a rotary hunt group of 3. We are also obtaining 2400 baud
modems for a separate hunt group and will provide this number on
request to our neighbor sites.
The Vax 730 is set up to accept uucp mail and news for site 'ittvax'
as well as the sitename 'ittatc'. We would like the uucp sites that we
communicate with to duplicate the L.sys entry for 'ittvax' and change
the sitename in the duplicate entry to 'ittatc'. It would be nice if
you would leave the 'ittvax' entry in your L.sys file for at least a
year to allow mail (using old addresses) destined directly for 'ittvax'
to reach the appropriate party. Change routing paths ( pathalias
databases, etc.) to reflect the fact that ittvax is now behind ittatc
however.
Please tell us if you experience any problems with transmission and
please be patient during this period. We anticipate no difficulties
handling the uucp load but are beginning to find it difficult to justify
tranmitting many of the current non-technical newsgroups.
In the event of technical difficulties (modem headaches) we would
appreciate it if our neighbor uucp and usenet sites would hold any
correspondence for us. We should pick it up within a week.
--
H. Morrow Long
ITT-ATC Systems Center,
1 Research Drive Shelton, CT 06484
Phone #: (203)-929-7341 x. 634
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