[Spice_announce] Fwd: Possible Server Interruption

[Charles H. Acton]

           NAIF Server Change -- Possible Service Interruption

On Monday, January 12 (PST), NAIF will switch the hardware that 
provides the "naif.jpl.nasa.gov" SPICE server used by many flight 
projects and other entities. We will be switching from a rather old 
SPARC Ultra 2 to a pair of PC/Linux boxes.  This change will offer 
greater reliability for this increasingly important service.  It will 
also offer some performance improvement that should be helpful in the 
future as more and more projects and individual customers come to 
count on this service, especially when a comprehensive new set of web 
services become available.

We have taken steps to minimize service disruption, but you may 
experience some outage. This is especially true for those using the 
Experimenter's Notebook with email-based entries: an outage of one or 
two days is possible.

If you have any questions, please contact:

   Charles (Chuck) Acton

or any other NAIF team member.

If you haven't already done so, consider signing up with the 
'spice_announce' news list for future announcements about NAIF/SPICE 
services (see URL below).


Charles.H.Acton at jpl.nasa.gov                       Phone (818) 354-3869
Navigation and Ancillary Information Group/JPL     Fax   (818) 393-6388
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