Miami's Network News Transfer Protocol (NNTP) server has not been
receiving its regular NetNews newsfeed from OARnet since sometime Friday,
1 March, or (more likely) Saturday morning, 2 March 1996.  MCIS Client
Services and MCIS Technical Support have just corrected this situation
(as of 9:35am Monday, 4 March) and OARnet has verified that their news
server is once again able to connect to Miami's and deliver NetNews.
 
     This temporary NetNews service outage was likely the result of an
emergency reboot of the MCIS IBM RS/6000 AIX system (Rose.MUOhio.Edu,
a/k/a NNTP.MUOhio.Edu) which had to be performed Saturday morning while
diagnosing Domain Name Service (DNS) problems while Miami's primary DNS
server (MUSrv.MUOhio.Edu) was down.
 
     MCIS regrets any inconvenience this situation may have caused our
clients.
 
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                                John B Harlan
             Campus Wide Information Systems (CWIS) Coordinator
                              Miami University
                 137 Hoyt Hall  Oxford, Ohio 45056-1618  USA
                      http://WWW.MUOhio.Edu/~CoorCWIS/
        (513) 529-5330 voice  (513) 529-1496 fax  [log in to unmask]