brian@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Brian Kantor) (02/16/88)
Between mainbus wedges of unknown cause and cpu cache parity errors, host 'ucsd' has been going up and down a whole lot the last week or so whilst we were all away at USENIX. DEC and we are working on the problems, and we hope that things will be much more stable soon. Often ucsd is down for several hours at a time, since it has an annoying habit of eating the format on one of its disks as it flutters away into LaLaLand. This system is the main mail forwarder for the UCSD campus, and handles most of our internet, uucp, and bitnet mail. It is also from whence our NNTP news connectivity springs. If you've been having problems getting mail, news, or nameservice from UCSD, these crashes are probably why. Luckily we don't seem to be losing stuff passing through, since that filesystem doesn't get chewed. It has been suggested that we rename the system 'limbo'. My resistance is weakening.... Brian Kantor UCSD Postmaster, News Weenie, & VAX750 Babysitter UCSD Office of Academic Computing Academic Network Operations Group UCSD B-028, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA brian@sdcsvax.ucsd.edu (619) 534-6865 * Yo-Yo is undoubtedly somebody's trademark. You have been warned.