mcb@lll-tis.arpa (Michael C. Berch) (10/14/87)
During the period 15 October - 1 November, the site lll-tis will be
undergoing a major reconfiguration. The following changes will affect
our UUCP and Usenet neighbors:
1) The lll-tis VAX-11/780 will be removed sometime during the
week of 26-30 October. A replacement machine (type unknown
pending final procurement) is expected to be installed sometime
during November. In the interim, we plan to rename one of our other
hosts as "lll-tis" to avoid major UUCP/Usenet/Internet dislocation.
If everything works out OK, this change should be relatively
transparent. We hope to be able to retain all presently existing
UUCP connections and Usenet feeds, but might have to curtail them
if we cannot "borrow" a machine with sufficient capacity.
2) The site's data switch is being replaced by an Encore Annex
communications server, sometime during the week of 19-23 October.
This means that incoming UUCP chat scripts will need to be modified.
Our UUCP neighbors will be receiving details on this shortly; if you talk
to us and don't get a message this week, let me know.
3) [For NNTP neighbors and other Internet folks] On or about 20 October,
the lll-tis VAX, which is a MILNET host, will leave MILNET and our
LAN (including the "new" lll-tis machine) will connect to the Internet
via another existing gateway. Since this requires both beaucoups
paperwork and coordination with the NIC, we could be off the net for
short periods commencing 20 October (during gateway testing) until the
reconfiguration is complete. This might have some impact on NNTP feeds.
Please contact me if you need any additional information.
Michael C. Berch
ARPA: mcb@lll-tis.arpa
UUCP: {ames,ihnp4,lll-crg,lll-lcc,mordor}!lll-tis!mcb
Tel. (415) 463-6848