Re: new machine address (again) for TASS WWW site -- sigh

[Tom Droege <droege@wwa.com>]

Huh!  I thought the whole idea of registering a name was that it could
be set up in a table somewhere so that it could point to anything??

Ron??

Tom Droege

At 05:55 PM 6/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>  I discovered today that RIT is re-wiring this new building into which
>we moved just a few months ago ... so that my machine's IP address has
>been changed AGAIN.  Arrggghhhh.
>
>  The problem is that this changes the URL of the TASS home page. 
>The new URL -- which will be active after 4 AM EDT Wednesday June 17 --
>is
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>                http://stupendous.rit.edu/tass/tass.shtml
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>Here, the "stupendous" is actually an alias -- my machine's _real_ 
>name is now "a188-l009" (yes, that's "ell-zero-zero-nine").  
>However, this alias will be stable - if the
>university changes the machine name on my again in the future, the 
>alias will change automatically to the new address.  So, please change
>your bookmarks to the URL given above.
>
>  Ron Wickersham -- I'm sorry, but I'm afraid that this means that
>the name you got for us 
>
>                  www.tass-survey.org
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>won't work any more.  If it's possible to switch this name so that
>it points to the URL given above, could you try to do so?  I would guess
>that it's not; if so, let me know, and I'll pay for the new name...
>
>  I apologize for the frequency with which the TASS home page's address
>keeps changing -- but I'm afraid that it's out of my control.  
>At least now, with an alias, I think things will be more stable.  
>
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>                                           Michael Richmond
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