As a few of you may know, I moved to a new house the first week of January.
Gerry stayed behind at the old house to keep an eye on things and to make
sure my other servers didn't get lonely.

Well, the DSL line is up and running at the new house for a few weeks now,
so I feel comfortable that it is stable. Both volksweb.relitech.com and
www.relitech.com servers moved over last week, and I haven't noticed any
timeout problems.

So here's the plan:

I'll do a full backup of Gerry on starting Friday night at 9:00PM or so. If
you think web archive searches are slow now, just try it while backups are
running! ;) The  list will be up and running during this time, just the mail
delivery will be a tad slower.

At 4:00PM or so on Saturday afternoon, Gerry will be shut down and gently
transported to the new house a mile away. I've alerted local TV and radio
stations and the County Council , so maybe there will be a parade and press
coverage...or maybe not.

Ron will be responsible for updating his DNS record at this time. The new IP
address for Gerry will be 208.37.250.151

Depending on how long the public and private festivities last, Gerry should
be in his new home and cranking out the mail at about 6:00PM. There may be
some delays when you send E-mail to the list, depending on how soon your
ISP's DNS servers figger out the change happened. Mail from Gerry to you
will not be affected.

Here's what had better not happen:

DO NOT send "Is the server up yet?" e-mail to the list. To do so invites
ridicule by me and a few others. I'll post a message when things are running
again. If you are dying to know "fer sure" if the list is up, use this handy
troubleshooting tip:

Send an E-mail message to "listserv@gerry.vanagon.com"  NOTE-NOT THE
"vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com" address.

Leave the subject line blank

In the message, type in the word "thanks" (without the quotes) and send it.

If the server is up and running, it will respond to your message, and also
give you oh-so-useful little tidbits of info like how much RAM is in the
system and how long it took to process the request.

If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please p-mail them to me.
This list is for discussing Vanagons, not the methodology of server moves.
;)

Thanks,
TomC
tcarrington@relitech.com
http://www.relitech.com/tomc
http://volksweb.relitech.com
85 Vanagon Crew Cab
82 Westy diesel=>gas conversion
65 Notchback