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Internet To Close For Maintenance This Weekend

April 1, 2005 Posted: 6:36 AM EDT (1136 GMT)

BERN, Switzerland (Reuters) -- Long-scheduled maintenance will bring the
Internet down this Saturday from 9PM to 3AM Greenwich Mean Time.

The Internet Architecture Board, in coordination with the United Nations,
has planned an "infrastructure maintenance window" for several years.
>According to IAB Senior Consultant Ursula Techenspüf "such a massive network
requires occasional maintenance to upgrade aging equipment." Also planned is
the first resorting of IP (Internet Protocol) numbers since before the
dotcom boom.

Techenspüf added "Years ago, when the Internet was largely academic, such
maintenance was not as stressful or disruptive. Most maintenance can be
performed on a 'hot' network now, but resetting of the Internet core still
requires taking it down."

Users should not expect to lose much data, although experts do warn of a
bring systems back on the network slowly and cautiously.

Markus

Won't effect me, got the entire WWW backed up onto a floppy

Must remember to tell Mum and Dad about this

Nicks VR4

I'm rewriting it now and adding some bug fixes
should get it on a 5.25 360k floppy too

JackClark

So that's where it went! Give us a bit of warning next time lads.

_Meridian_

iTrader: (1)

Yes, very clever.....


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