From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-14 09:05:00
Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
> At 08:57 AM 10/14/2003, you wrote:
> >Beman Dawes <bdawes_at_[hidden]> writes:
> >
> >> The Boost web site host will change to SourceForge later today. That
> >> involves changes to accounts at Network Solutions (Boost's registrar),
> >> easyDNS (Boost's new DNS provider), and SourceForge (the new virtual
> >> host). The change can take up to 72 hours to propagate around the
> >> world.
> >>
> >> The changes are trivial and should be transparent. But if there is a
> >> slip along the way, both the web site and mailing lists could become
> >> invisible until the problem is corrected. If that happens just hang
> >> on; it will get corrected as soon as possible.
> >>
> >> You can tell if the change has reached your DNS by pinging
> >> www.boost.org, which currently resolves to 64.226.201.52. Once the
> >> change is in effect, it will resolve to 66.35.250.2nn.
> >
> >Beman,
> >
> >A few files have been updated directly on the site since the 1.30.2
> >release went out. Do you have a plan for ensuring that those changes
> >are preserved?
>
> No. Any idea which files are involved?
Not enough to be reliable about it. There's some nice website
mirroring software out there. We could use it to copy the current
site.
-- Dave Abrahams Boost Consulting www.boost-consulting.com