Re: Config Run on Sunday, April 23 1000EDT

[phuston () nsf gov (Priscilla Jane Huston)]

Let me add the appreciation of NSF to that from Elise to all of you who
have been taking independent and proactive actions to help assure a smooth
transition both for your regions and others.  Thank you.  Priscilla Huston

At 10:19 PM 4/21/95, Elise Gerich wrote:
> Merit has rescheduled the configuration run which was postponed on
> Friday, April 21, 1995 for Sunday, April 23 at 1000 EDT.  The originally
> scheduled configuration window was postponed because the configuration
> file for ENSS 147 (MAE-East) exceeded 17MB and was corrupt.  We had
> to allocate more filesystem space in order to generate a complete
> configuration and in addition we worked with ASes 293, 297, 568,
> 1800 and 3561 to reduce the number of net lists contained in the
> configuration file.  The result is a configuration file of a more
> reasonable size (9.9MB).
>
> The additional activity which was planned for April 21, 1995 was
> to disable peering sessions between AS 690 and others at the following
> ENSSes:
> 128
> 129
> 130
> 131
> 132
> 133
> 134
> 135
> 137
> 139
> 140
> 141
> 142
> 143
> 145
> This activity has been rescheduled for 0700 EDT on Tuesday, April 25, 1995.
> Several organizations have taken the initiative to reduce their dependence
> on the NSFNET Service even though we had to postpone the planned configuration
> today.  Thank you all for taking those actions independently.
>
>         --Elise

Priscilla Jane Huston
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