On Thu, 04 May 2000, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Thu, 4 May 2000, Matthias Elter wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 04 May 2000, Kurt Granroth wrote:
> > > Well, if all goes as planned, our CVS will be on SourceForge
> > > tommorrow, May 5.  We've been testing it the past few days and
> > > everything looks great.
> > > 
> > > The plan is to shutdown CVS at 6pm Germany time and switch the DNS to
> > > point to the new address.  The DNS change should HOPEFULLY take only
> > > 3-5 hours.  If I am told otherwise before 6pm tomorrow, then we'll
> > > wing it.
> > > 
> > > Anyway, when the DNS changes have made it through the 'net, we'll be
> > > ready to go.
> > 
> > Why not simply give us the IP so we are not locked out of CVS for several hours?
> > 
> It's not about the IP number. It's about not commiting the in copy before
> the original is out!

You would of course unveil the new IP adress _after_ shutting down the old
server.

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Matthias Elter
elter@kde.org
me@caldera.de