Far as I heard, HP will send (or has sent) a truckload of supplies to the UT. These will be operational tomorrow, BUT will only be used to get the internal networking structures online. Connection to the outside world (SURFnet) might take till next week, nothing final said on that issue. Jeroen On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:51:18 +0100 Lionel Elie Mamane <lionel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > A fire has completely destroyed a whole server room (in fact a > building) at the university of Twente. In this server room lay, among > others: > > - security.debian.org = non-us.debian.org = satie.debian.org > = nm.debian.org = qa.debian.org > - ftp.snt.utwente.nl (a Debian mirror, and I guess much more) > > No human casualties AFAIK. > > I've heard service for security.debian.org would be restored on > klecker.debian.org. Your DNS caches might take two weeks to notice > this :) > > As for the university of Twente network, they were preparing to > replace that room by a new one anyways in one month, are thus rushing > to complete that change now, expected to be working tomorrow. > > A webcam of the fire: > > There is a (slashdotted) webcam at > http://ns.traserv.com:8001/ispy.jpg: > Mirror of one image, which looks spectacular but says nothing: > http://www-infstud.sci.kun.nl/~pspiertz/ispy.jpg (this was saved > around 9:45 CET) > > In Dutch: > http://www.trouw.nl/ANP/LAATSTE_NIEUWS/ANP-201102-58-anp.html > > -- > Lionel
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