Its been a bad few days for the piclist.com address. There is apparently a continuing DNS problem. I first noticed it yesterday (DNS problems don't always show up the same way to everyone, it can be fine in one area for a quite a while after the problem actually occurs) and notified the DNS provider, domain name owner (Jory) and the other admins (Mark). The DNS provider restarted a server (which solved the problem at least for me and at least until yesterday evening) and suggested some changes. Today, the address is again not resolving to an IP address. The site itself is not busy or overloaded. The DNS server is apparently what is giving you the "too many people" message. The DNS provider is very helpful and I'm sure that he and Jory will be able to get it solved. I'll do anything I can as well. In the mean time, you can access the server directly and the piclist.com site via the techref at: http://204.210.50.240/techref/default.asp?url=piclist Also, the search engine for the PICList is not at the piclist.com site. There is a link from piclist.com but the site is http://www.iversoft.com/piclist/ And on top of that... The site server had a bad night last night from about 2200 to 0630 but was up yesterday and is up today. The damn thing screwed itself good.... Second time since we started. No idea why. Had a VDX page fault message this time. Nothing in the M$ knowledge base. Blue screen by this morning and a lot of people said they couldn't get in. Sorry about the hassle. Its up again now. The good news is PacBell finally got our 384kbps DSL connection up at a location where the server can be monitored 24/7. The current server only has human companionship 06:30 to 15:30 daily. We are testing the connection for reliability and setting up a new server machine. Then we will register a nicer domain name for the techref and move the techref and PICList sites. The old server will continue for other things and refer techref and PICList people to the new address. I'm also experimenting with Linux (Red Hat 6.1) as a router and backup web server. I've seen some interesting things done where an NT box and a Linux box ping each other (actually they hit each others web pages) and if one dies, the other takes over. The idea is that even if something external (hacker, virus, anything that triggers an OS flaw, etc...) kills one, its very unlikely to kill the other. Since I use a lot of ASP and 32-bit machine language MASM code, in my case the Linux box will only have a "We are experiencing technical difficulties" web page and it will spend its time screaming (pager, audio alarm, phone calls, etc...) for help and maybe rebooting the NT server. So far the Red Hat installer has some kind of security problem with the partition table, but I've not had time to really trouble shoot it. Any Linux guru's in the San Diego north county area? --- James Newton mailto:jamesnewton@geocities.com 1-619-652-0593 http://techref.homepage.com The Technical Details Site. Members can add private/public comments/pages ($0 TANSTAAFL web hosting) -----Original Message----- From: pic microcontroller discussion list [mailto:PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU]On Behalf Of Gene Norris Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2000 06:09 To: PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU Subject: PicList - Whats wrong Is there something wrong with the PICLIST site? I have been trying to access it for the past three days without success. At first I got a message that too many people were on. And then I started getting CONNECTION REFUSED. I want to search the list for examples of low battery detection schemes. Thanks, Gene. Gene & Sydelle Norris mailto:enorris@home.com http://members.home.net/enorris E. Windsor, NJ USA