Christopher Spry (cspry at sghms.ac.uk) wrote:
> Once again NCBI (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, 130.14.20.1) is invisible to me (22 & 23 July 1995). Ping
> returns no packets. It has no DNS entry here so this is more than just a minor loss of
> connectivity. Last time this was said to be due to a failure for several days in part of the
> US provision of links to the UK, Holland and some US sites. I should be grateful if NCBI would
> look into why this has happened again. It would also be of help to me if I could be told what
> is going on. I have sent email to UKERNA and HGMP about this, hoping that they will also look
> into this from the UK end. I was unable to find an emergency phone number at either site. Is
> there one I should use if this happens again? Shouldn't electronic links be maintainied as
> effectively as phone links, with alternative routes planned in advance for when failures
> occurr?
> --
> Christopher Spry.
>cspry at sghms.ac.uk <Prof. Christopher Spry> St. George's Hospital Medical School
'ncbi' (130.14.20.1) was down due to a failed power supply. During this
time, users should have been able, however, to use the WWW Entrez system
(which runs on a different machine):
http://www3.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Entrez/index.html
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Dennis Benson
NCBI
