woods@ncar.ucar.edu (Greg Woods) (03/24/88)
Due to circumstances beyond my control, the plug has been pulled on the backbone site "hao" much sooner than I expected, and without any advance notice to me. The site "ncar" has already taken over most of hao's long-haul net links (news and mail), but unfortunately the dial in/out capability on "ncar" is not yet completed and probably will not be until sometime early next week. While there is still a machine out there that responds to the name "hao.ucar.edu" (which makes things worse), it is not the same machine and does not even have uucp or nntp running. All my neighbors are requested to immediately shut off news and uucp to hao, and convert over to using "ncar" instead. My Internet neighbors already have links set up, so all they really need to do is put an appropriate line into the L.aliases file so that mail routed through hao will have the best chance of getting to its destination. Everyone else should stop routing through hao and it should immediately be marked as dead in everyone's pathalias data. The map entry for "ncar" does appear in the latest set of comp.mail.maps postings and all links that actually appear there are operative. We do intend to provide the same service via "ncar" that "hao" has been providing for so many years, and we apologize for the inconvenience this will undoubtedly cause. But honest, it's not my fault. Flame my boss (bovet@hao.ucar.edu :-) not me, please. In the meantime, there are several local phone links that used to go to hao that will not be working until sometime next week. When they are, I will post a new map entry for "ncar" and an announcement to this newsgroup. Again, sorry for the inconvenience. The admins of the phone links in question can expect a call from me sometime in the next few days to arrange for setting up a link to "ncar" (assuming your phone number can be found in the maps). --Greg