How legacy systems die

adamo Uncategorized 2014/04/092014/04/09 1 Minute

The news server that a friend was maintaining had stopped responding for a while. Leafnode complained with:

warning: HOSTNAME: cannot resolve host name: Name or service not known

So I emailed my friend and asked. It seems that the hardware of HOSTNAME had failed, and that after a month or so I was the only person who wondered about its fate. No plans to put it back online exist.

And with that I realized that the USENET is now dead for me.

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Published 2014/04/092014/04/09

4 thoughts on “How legacy systems die”

Evangelos Tripolitakis says:

2014/04/09 at 19:36

Το usenet ζει και βασιλεύει. Απλά επέστρεψε στο underground…

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dandraka says:

2014/04/09 at 21:54

ntua.* ?
:-(

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1. adamo says:
  
  2014/04/09 at 22:01
  
  Όχι ο server δεν ήταν ο news.ntua.gr. Αλλά θα μπορούσε να είναι. Έτσι κι αλλιώς έχω να γράψω στα ntua.* από το 2006-2007. Αν κανείς από τους τότε archivists δεν βαριέται θα μας πει και ακριβώς.
  
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  1. Stazybο Hοrn says:
    
    2014/04/12 at 21:34
    
    18/01/10 δεν είσαι εσύ στο ntua.discuss;
    
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