woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) (05/23/89)
The USENET site 'ncar' (ncar.ucar.edu and handies.ucar.edu on the Internet) will be down over Memorial Day weekend (May 27-29) for an operating system upgrade. Internet mail in and out of NCAR will continue to flow as usual, to NCAR from hosts or sites that have resolver (MX)-compatible mailers, and outbound from NCAR from internal hosts that have MX-compatible mailers, via our backup central post office machine (windom.ucar.edu). Mail in and out over UUCP phone links will be unavailable during the down time. USENET news through 'ncar' will also be blocked. MIGS (MASnet/Internet Gateway Server) will be available via a backup MIGS server (niwot.ucar.edu). If you are a MIGS user, contact your local system administrator. If you are a MIGS system administrator, contact Craig Ruff (cruff@ncar.ucar.edu) for information on how to use the backup MIGS server. The E-mail Query/Change Utility and the MIGS defaults database (chdef) will be inaccessible during the down time, as they are not provided on the backup machines. Our apologies to internal users, external users of our computing facilities, colleagues of NCAR scientists, and our downstream news feeds for the inconvenience this may cause, but this upgrade is LONG overdue, and it is hoped that we can minimize the inconvenience by doing it over the holiday weekend. --Greg