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INTERNET CONNECTION RESTORED TUESDAY, JUNE 24
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UUNET Technologies solved the problems at their Vienna, Virginia hub at
about 3:00 PM this afternoon, but experienced severe routing instability
for the rest of the afternoon.  As of about 5:20 PM that problem was
solved, and our connection to the rest of the Internet has been stable
since then.

However, the lack of a stable connection for the better part of the day
has left the Sun SPARC 1000 (our UNIX host) littered with zombie processes
and other virtual cobwebs that need to be cleared out in order to bring us
back to full efficiency. Therefore it will be rebooted at 6:45 PM. 

Anyone logged into a UNIX shell acount at reboot time will be logged out,
and will not be able to log back in until the SPARC 1000 comes back up. 
User authentication for PPP access will not be available during the
reboot, so new PPP connections will not be possible until the SPARC 1000
comes back up.  Users who already have PPP connections at the time will
not lose their connections or their access to the rest of the Internet,
but will not be able to access services running on the SPARC 1000 (POP
mail, BCPL Web pages, etc.) until the SPARC 1000 comes back up. 

Unless something unforseen occurs, the SPARC 1000 should be back up with
all services restored about five minutes after the reboot.

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If you have questions about this, or about anything else related to
your BCPL Internet Account, please contact the BCPL Help Desk.

 Phone:   410-887-3297
 FAX:     410-887-2091
 E-Mail:  help@mail.bcpl.lib.md.us

 Help Pages:            http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/help.html
                        (or enter "help" at the UNIX shell prompt)

 System News Archives:  http://www.bcpl.lib.md.us/sysnews.html
                        (or enter "sysnews" at the UNIX shell prompt)