[sac-board] Re: New Address for SAC-Board
- From: Paul Dickson <dickson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: sac-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 21:01:05 -0700
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001 19:01:17 -0700, AJ Crayon wrote:
>
> Paul, both of the listed URLs return a "Not Found" message. Am I
> jumping the gun here or is something rong?
This from [Freelists News] which just arrived:
> What follows is the "word on the street," so do take this with a grain of
> salt. I just want everyone out there to know what I know: Atlink, a major
> mid-west DSL provider is going out of business, and today closed offices
> and laid off their employees in Indianapolis (where FreeLists is/was
> hosted). According to one unofficial report, Atlink's upstream service
> providers pulled the plug on their circuits, effectively taking them off
> the map. This is all a result, supposedly, of a major Indianapolis
> customer going bankrupt, leaving Atlink short several million dollars.
> Check the tech news tomorrow and Friday - official confirmation of this
> should be coming out eventually.
>
> Obviously, this had some negative effects on our services. We experienced
> about a 4-hour outage while I fought back and forth on the phone with our
> ISP (who has been quite helpful through this), and other local networking
> companies, trying to come up with another solution. The quickest
> resolution was to move FreeLists back to its old network, so we put that
> into effect.
>
> Basically, that puts us back where we were last Friday, before moving to
> our "new network," which today was essentially ripped out from under us.
> Along with the move goes the secondary downtime of waiting for DNS records
> to update, which should be done by tomorrow morning for most.
So basically, until the cached IP addresses expire, you won't be able
to access said pages. Try later tonight or wait until tomorrow.
-Paul
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