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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: atari.archive (was terminator)
Message-ID: <1990Aug31.043318.1767@math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 31 Aug 90 04:33:18 GMT
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In article <1990Aug31.024622.1203@rodan.acs.syr.edu> ggreenbe@rodan.acs.syr.edu (Gerald Greenberg) writes:
>	I've been trying to ftp from atari.archive
>	(terminator/35.1.33.8) all day today, but never get
>	connected.  Is there a problem there today?  As I said

I posted a note about this last week, you must have missed it.
The network numbers have changed, atari.archive.umich.edu is now
at 141.211.164.8. If your site isn't using the Domain Naming System
you should ask (no, *demand*!  }-)  that your sysadmin switch over.
It'll save you from this sort of hassle if you always use domain
names to refer to sites. (As opposed to numeric addresses.)

While I don't predict the numbers in Michigan changing again any
time in the near future, as a general rule - don't use static lists
of host names and addresses, use the Domain Naming System. Don't
use numeric addresses when you try to connect to places, use their
names and the Domain Naming System. You'll be happier for it...
--
  -- Howard Chu @ University of Michigan
  one million data bits stored on a chip, one million bits per chip
	if one of those data bits happens to flip,
		one million data bits stored on the chip...