bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein) (03/22/89)
Does anyone know why WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL has been unreachable for a couple of days now? This is a major archive site and they have tons of stuff I absolutely cannot live without. [Have you tried sending e-mail to postmaster@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL? If not, you should have done that before bothering the net. In general, if you have problems with a site that has a domain name, you should *first* direct queries to postmaster@thatsite. If you don't get a response in a week or so and the problem hasn't cleared up by then, then is the appropriate time to send a message to the net. tww] -Bob Glickstein -Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
rsalz@bbn.com (Rich Salz) (03/24/89)
In <cY9lhky00VsnE21V4O@andrew.cmu.edu>, you write in comp.archives: >Does anyone know why WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL has been unreachable for a couple of >days now? This is a major archive site and they have tons of stuff I absolutely >cannot live without. They recently changed their network address, and domain servers have the old address. Apparently many sites on MILNLET are getting address changes, an action that's been called "gratuitous" by some (c.f. comp.protocols.tcp-ip). Ask your local nameserver guru to flush the cache for everything in the MIL domain. /rich $alz -- Please send comp.sources.unix-related mail to rsalz@uunet.uu.net.
br0w+@andrew.cmu.edu ("Bruno W. Repetto") (03/25/89)
They recently changed their address from 26.0.0.74 to 26.2.0.74. Keith Petersen announced the change only recently. Bruno.
davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (Wm. E. Davidsen Jr) (03/31/89)
In article <cY9lhky00VsnE21V4O@andrew.cmu.edu> bobg+@andrew.cmu.edu (Robert Steven Glickstein) writes: | Does anyone know why WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL has been unreachable for a couple of | days now? This is a major archive site and they have tons of stuff I absolutely | cannot live without. | | [Have you tried sending e-mail to | postmaster@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL? If not, you | should have done that before bothering the net. In Excuse me? If the site is unreachable how would sending mail to it do any good? [Presumably he meant that ftp didn't work. However, the mechanism for ftp and for mail is slightly different; it is possible for one to succeed when the other fails. For example, his problem might have been that the site was refusing ftp connections; in that case mail would have worked fine. Or, even in the event, he might have been using the internet address for ftp, which would have failed, but mail might have had its address resolved correctly. Anyway, I just want to encourage people to use private means for checking out problems before taking it to the net. tww] -- bill davidsen (wedu@crd.GE.COM) {uunet | philabs}!steinmetz!crdos1!davidsen "Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me
cas2070@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu (Cary Alan Sandvig) (04/18/89)
I am very confused... it seems that everything on SIMTEL20 is compressed... but I have been unable to find anything that will decompress it... can you help... -Cary (cas2070@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu) [You can get information about simtel20 by sending the following to twwells!comp-archives-server path cas2070@uxf.cso.uiuc.edu send help send site wsmr-simtel20.army.mil If your site doesn't know about twwells, try uunet!twwells!comp-archives-server or possibly comp-archives-server@twwells.com. If that doesn't answer your question, please ask again, but it would be a good idea for you to then mention what systems you have access to as this sometimes makes a difference. tww]
w8sdz@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL (Keith Petersen) (04/23/89)
Complaints and questions about the Simtel20 archives should be sent to
action@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil which is a mailbox set up expressly for
that purpose.
FTP users should download file SIMTEL-ARCHIVES.INFO from the default
anonymous ftp directory for a complete overview.
[Could you mail me that file? When people ask about simtel20,
I send them the posting of a few months ago. That appears to
be out of date. tww]
Please note our IP address was changed to 26.2.0.74 about three weeks
ago. If you have trouble connecting to Simtel20 your host table may
be out of date. Ask your system administrator for help.
--Keith Petersen
Maintainer of Simtel20's CP/M, MSDOS, and MISC archives
Internet: w8sdz@wsmr-simtel20.army.mil [26.2.0.74]
Uucp: {ames,decwrl,harvard,rutgers,ucbvax,uunet}!wsmr-simtel20.army.mil!w8sdz