pcl (07/02/82)
All netnews sites at Bell Labs' Indian Hill facility (Naperville, IL) have been temporarily cut off from the rest of Usenet due to communications problems with ihnss. After limping through most of the week with just a trickle of news, ihnss finally buckled under today. We are attempting to re-group, but probably have not yet achieved a stable, reliable configuration. Note that there are approximately 43 Usenet sites at Indian Hill. When possible, mail should be routed around ihnss. To do so, it may help to know that the ihux* machines can all exchange mail directly with the houx* machines in Holmdel, NJ (among others), and that almost all Indian Hill machines (ih*, iw*, ix*) can communicate directly with one-another. I don't know yet if it will be (or has been) necessary to flush any of the messages queued for ihnss - I will try to find out. (The last that I heard, there were over 700 (!) jobs queued on ihnss - a PDP 11/70 [*].) Paul Lustgarten Bell Labs - Indian Hill [*] "PDP" is a trademark of DEC
pcl (07/02/82)
I have been informed that it was necessary to flush over 900 items from ihnss, in order to restore it to service. Most, if not all, of them were netnews articles being distributed to other Indian Hill machines, but if you have recently routed mail through ihnss, and don't know for sure that it was received, try again. As I mentioned in the previous message, we would appreciate routing around ihnss if possible, but if not, the previous connections to/from ihnss should still work. Paul Lustgarten Bell Labs - Indian Hill