Hi all, some of you may have noticed have received mail bounces from

mail that you sent me from MAILER-DAEMON@mit.edu that referenced failure

to deliver mail to tytso-mit@thunk.org, for example:
  <tytso-mit@thunk.org>... Deferred: Connection timed out with thunk.org.

  Message could not be delivered for 3 days

  Message will be deleted from queue
Some of you may have also noticed that mail sent to tytso@thunk.org may

have also started bouncing in a similar fashion.  
My apologies.  Unfortunately thunk.org failed on December 23rd, and

because I and other people who might have been able to gain physical

access to the colo facility (where the server is located) have been

travelling for the holidays, I haven't been able to get the machine back

up as quickly as I would like.  Please rest assured that mail sent to

tytso@mit.edu is being read, despite the bounce messages.

tytso-mit@thunk.org was a backup copy of mail sent to tytso@mit.edu that

I established a while back as a backup way of reading my mit.edu mail

after my mit.edu IMAP server was down for 4 days.[1]
In any case, mail service to tytso@mit.edu has not been interrupted; I

am reading mail sent there, and it is the primary way that I should be

contacted for any Linux/Open Source related matters.
Mail to tytso@thunk.org is currently being held in mail queues, and

depending on how SMTP mailers have been configured, may have started

getting returned to sender.  A few debian mailing lists are set to feed

tytso@thunk.org, and some people use it to contact me, although I

generally have not published it as a contact address.
I'm hopeful that I will get thunk.org restored fairly quickly, and

apologize for any inconvenience/confusion this may have prompted.
Regards,
						- Ted
[1] An interesting story, which involved the MIT I/T staff waiting 36+

hours for a Solaris ufs fsck to finish on a 1TB filesystem, before

aborting it in frustration and using other methods to restore service,

but for another day.

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