> I just would like people to say if the site is down for them or not. If you can't connect to plan9.bell-labs.com but you can connect to, say, sources.cs.bell-labs.com or even plain old www.bell-labs.com, then it's exceedingly unlikely that the problem is on your end. If you were really worried about that possibility, you could log into a machine somewhere else in the world (the Japan Plan 9 machines, for example) and try connecting from there.
Whichever end has the connectivity problem, it doesn't contribute anything to the quality of 9fans traffic for a half dozen people to post "gee, it doesn't work for me right now either". If you want to bring the problem to someone's attention, this is one of the few situations in which it makes sense to mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of posting to 9fans. (Even if the machine plan9.bell-labs.com is down, mail to 9trouble will still arrive at Bell Labs via a different mail server.) > I am curious though. There is clearly a recurring problem. Is it > hardware, software, or undiagnosed? Most often it is simply unnoticed. The machine that serves as the plan9.bell-labs.com web server does little else these days, so if (for whatever reason) it stops, it can take a while before anyone at Bell Labs notices. All the more reason to send mail to 9trouble (and not 9fans). Russ
