Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 11:56:27 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at keithlynch.net>
To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Our web site is down again
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>

I regret to announce that our web site (http://www.wsfa.org/) is down
again.  I discovered this late last night after returning from the
meeting and attempting to update our calendar of upcoming events.

Apparently there was a database update glitch, and the corrected
domain name service information was overwritten with the obsolete
mai.net domain name service information.  I have changed it back in
time for Network Solutions' noon update.  After that, it may take 24
to 48 hours to propagate to all corners of the net.

Also, as a completely unrelated problem, the machine itself was down
from about midnight until about 10 am.  I see that there have also
been several outages of ten to twenty minutes in the past week.  If
this recurs, I will speak to hosting.com about it.  The service we're
paying for is really supposed to be on a Unix host, not an NT box as
it's on now.

Perhaps it's just as well that we didn't mail Capclave flyers
last night, since they would have resulted in lots of hits on
http://capclave.org/ -- which points back at http://www.wsfa.org/capc02/

As a reminder, all WSFA web pages are mirrored at
http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/ , mainly so they can be viewed there
whenever our main site is down.

Sam, if it's not too much effort, and if you don't mind undoing it
again in a day or two, you might change http://capclave.org/ and
http://www.capclave.org/ to point at http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/capc02/
until this is resolved.  No big deal if you can't, as the problem should
be fixed with a day or two.

I'm heading to the used book sale now.  I should be back by 6 pm at
the latest.
--
Keith F. Lynch - kfl at keithlynch.net - http://keithlynch.net/
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