tgt@cblpf.ATT.COM (Tim Thompson) (02/19/88)
I'm in the process of bringing up the new gateway machine that Mark mentioned in the previous article. One bit of mis-information was given (probably a typo): The new gateway, currenty called att-cb, can be reached on datakit by using oh/cba/att-cb.uucp, not oh/cba/att-dk.uucp, as it appeared previously. I'm hoping to migrate the backbone feeds from cbosgd over to att-cb yet today (Friday the 19th). Rest assured that no NetNews will be lost; however, there may be a delay in getting it propogated for the next week or two. Sorry for the inconvenience. Tim Thompson tgt@cblpf.ATT.COM cblpf!tgt
bob@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu (Bob Sutterfield) (02/20/88)
In article <6605@cbosgd.ATT.COM> mark@cbosgd.ATT.COM (Mark Horton) writes: >Because of [the load caused by news], I'm temporarily shutting off >netnews on cbosgd... We are bringing up a new machine which we >intend to use as the new netnews gateway... I hope the machine is up >and running in a week or two. We feed news to thirteen leaf sites via UUCP from osu-cis, and a few more via NNTP from tut.cis.ohio-state.edu over the campus- and Ohio-wide IP networks. These numbers are growing weekly. Unfortunately, we found out late yesterday that our Usenet link, cbosgd, is going away Very Very Soon, so we find ourselves in desperate need of new connectivity. (pyramid!csg is graciously, though temporarily, feeding us most of our old distributions until we find a better way.) Coincidentally, the campus IMP was put into service just this week - OSU is now connected to the ARPAnet via CMU, and to the NSFnet via the Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center. Is there anyone willing and able to offer us an NNTP news feed? In the best of all worlds, of course, we would like to establish full bi-directional feeds with several Usenet backbone sites who are also on the Internet; but anyone who can help us out would earn our eternal gratitude. Well, maybe not eternal, but it would certainly make a lot of people in central Ohio pretty happy for quite a while. (Although I am subscribed to it, I have lost the address of the NNTP-Managers list - would somebody please forward this plea to them? Thanks very much.) -- Bob Sutterfield, Department of Computer and Information Science The Ohio State University; 2036 Neil Ave. Columbus OH USA 43210-1277 bob@cis.ohio-state.edu or ...!cbosgd!osu-cis!bob