Subject: "Pine Secrets" document

From: [email-masked] (David Barr)
Date: 27 Aug 1994 12:37:19 -0400

I tried the "Request Pine 3.90 secrets" document on the opening
screen, but the mail bounced.

The original message was received at Sat, 27 Aug 1994 12:28:57 -0400
from barr@localhost

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501 [email-masked]...  550 Host unknown (Name server: docserver.cac.washington.edu: host not found)

--Dave

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From: [email-masked] (R. Stewart Ellis)
Date: 27 Aug 94 19:34:30 GMT

>--Dave

metoo.

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 15:45:01 -0700 (PDT)

One of the four authoritative name servers for cac.washington.edu has 
stale data which, unfortunately, doesn't know about the hostname 
docserver.  If you are unlucky enough to ask that name server it will 
tell you there is no such host.  We've removed that server from the list 
of authoritative server and are trying to get that server's date updated, 
so this shouldn't happen to too many more people.  Sorry about the 
inconvenience.

Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Networks and Distributed Computing, Univ. of Washington, Seattle

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From: [email-masked] (David Barr)
Date: 27 Aug 1994 18:33:16 -0400

In article <[email-masked]>,
>screen, but the mail bounced.

On further inspection, it seems that the "docserver.cac.washington.edu"
CNAME was recently added (apparently sometime on 27 August) and hadn't
yet propagated to many of the secondary nameservers.  In fact,
june.cs.washington.edu is still carrying zone data 20 July, and
ns.unet.umn.edu has data from 25 August.

So anyway, it may be a few hours or days until things stabalize
for everyone.

--Dave

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From: Steve Hubert <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 23:08:15 -0700 (PDT)

> ns.unet.umn.edu has data from 25 August.

It wasn't actually that bad.  The docserver CNAME was added August 3rd 
(hey, we even tested it!).  The part about june carrying stale data is 
correct and was the problem.  Everything should be working smoothly now.