Dear Stephen Burley, Stephen Burley wrote:

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Dear colleagues,

After experiencing performance slow-down on our whois service, we decided to upgrade the hardware of our primary whois server.

The upgrade will take place on 9 March, 2001, Friday. It will start at 8:00am CET and planned to last approximately 2 hours.

Just a quick quaestion, Why Friday and why during working hours? All our maint slots have to be out of hours and not preceding a weekend.

The time has been chosen because other parties are involved in the upgrade. Anyway, quires should not be affected and updates will go like meteors after the upgrade :), so hopefully this should not affect others work too much. Friday is because there is a substantial reduction in update rate over weekends, so we have time to solve a problem if one occurs. Again, sorry for any inconvenience. Regards, Andrei Robachevsky DB Group Manager RIPE NCC

Curious

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