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MAIL.BCPL.NET CRASH 9/21/99
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Our primary UNIX host, mail.bcpl.net, crashed at 11:02 PM, Tuesday,
September 21.  It was brought back up at 12:04 AM, Wednesday, September
22.

For most customers the most obvious symptoms of the downtime probably were
as follows:  If you tried to log in during that period, your username and
password could not be authenticated.  If you were already logged in, you
could not receive or send e-mail because mail.bcpl.net is our mail server,
connections to remote sites took longer than usual to establish because
mail.bcpl.net is our primary DNS server, and it was impossible to make
telnet and FTP connections to mail.bcpl.net itself.

We are still looking for the cause of the crash, but for now mail.bcpl.net
seems to be up and running normally.

BCPL.NET INTERNET SERVICES CONTACTS:
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Administration & Policy:           ispadmin@bcpl.net    410-887-6180
Sales, Renewals, Account Status:   accounts@bcpl.net    410-887-4172
Technical Support (Help Desk):     help@bcpl.net        410-887-3297
Usenet News Newsgroup Requests     news-admin@bcpl.net  410-887-6180
E-Mail & Newsgroup Abuse Reports:  abuse@bcpl.net       410-887-6180
FAX:                                                    410-887-2091
Help Pages:            http://www.bcpl.net/help.html
                       (or enter "help" at the UNIX shell prompt)
System News Archives:  http://www.bcpl.net/sysnews.html
                       (or enter "sysnews" at the UNIX shell prompt)