It will take 2-3 days for the Internic to propagate this name to all the servers around the net. Then we can build the website.

Terry - a million thank yous. What a thoughtful idea.

It can be called both www.austen.com and jane.austen.com. Both will go to the same site.

Thank you, Katy.

Terry, I am speechless. But please do tell what you are getting from this. I hate to be in your debt without knowing how you can benefit from this.

Terry, I echo Amy's sentiments! It was wonderful of you to do this - but about the $100 Internic fee (not to mention general server expenditures)??

I'll take care of all that. I have three servers so there's plenty of server space to handle many more dedicated domains. I'm just happy to see all this happen. The reward will come if some of the folks coming here discover that this is a bigger countr y, with other conferences on books, movies, tv, cultures, etc.

Sir, you are a gentleman. We are indeed fortunate to have made your acquaintance. Many thanks. Your humble servants, etc.

Ditto to all the above - Terry you are amazing :) Saman

Many, many thanks Terry. You are a true gentleman. We are all in your debt. Your humble computer ignoramus, Inko

Terry - thanks a million

I'm just really glad to see this community of folks on the Spring, that's what the Spring is all about. I love all the activity and I'll help out however I can.

Wonderful, Wonderful, Capital, Capital

Wonderful, Wonderful, Capital, Capital

Wonderful, Wonderful, Capital, Capital

Terry: Sir you are an Honourable Gentleman to the last. A fine upstanding example of all that is Good with the World. Seriously.

Thanks geekman. I am happy that you are enjoying this conference. Should we give Donna the triple award?

Today, we made it into the Internic database. Results of a whois search: www# whois austen.com Jane Austen Conference on the Spring (AUSTEN-DOM) Rt 2 Box 56R Cedar Creek, TX 78612 USA Domain Name: AUSTEN.COM Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact, Billing Contact: Walhus, Paul (PW30) terry@SPRING.COM 512/310-9903x1044 Record last updated on 24-Nov-96. Record created on 24-Nov-96. Domain servers in listed order: DNS1.SPRING.COM 208.199.212.2 DNS2.SPRING.COM 208.199.212.3 The InterNIC Registration Services Host contains ONLY Internet Information (Networks, ASN's, Domains, and POC's). Please use the whois server at nic.ddn.mil for MILNET Information. That's a phone number for me that no longer works, however. It should be 512/303-4000.

WOW!! Thank you so very much. Ladies & Gents we have a home.

austen.com is alive!!!!!! Amy, you may ftp your own content to it now.

Yeah! Terry, we have not talked since my flood. Are your hardware troubles solved? My mail to you is still bouncing. Could you send me the path again along with the other stuff you captured from our netMeeting session on Wednesday? Too many questinos, I know, but while I suspect you are on I am going to grab you. Did you move from uls1? Just installed the newer versino of NetMeeting and could not find a "Terry" Amy

Yeah! Terry, we have not talked since my flood. Are your hardware troubles solved? My mail to you is still bouncing. Could you send me the path again along with the other stuff you captured from our netMeeting session on Wednesday? Too many questinos, I know, but while I suspect you are on I am going to grab you. Did you move from uls1? Just installed the newer versino of NetMeeting and could not find a "Terry" Amy

ftp 207.113.199.70 will work until the new name propagates.

[ URL ftp://rs.internic.net/templates/domain-template.txt ] [ 04/96 ] ******************* Please DO NOT REMOVE Version Number ******************** Domain Version Number: 3.0 **************** Please see attached detailed instructions ***************** ******** Only for registrations under ROOT, COM, ORG, NET, EDU, GOV ******** Authorization 0a. (N)ew (M)odify (D)elete....: M 0b. Auth Scheme................: MAIL-FROM 0c. Auth Info..................: 1. Purpose/Description........: webserver 2. Complete Domain Name.......: austen.com Organization Using Domain Name 3a. Organization Name..........: Jane Austen Conference on the Spring 3b. Street Address.............: Rt 2 Box 56R 3c. City.......................: Cedar Creek 3d. State......................: TX 3e. Postal Code................: 78612 3f. Country Code...............: USA Administrative Contact 4a. NIC Handle (if known)......: PW30 4b. (I)ndividual (R)ole........: Individual 4c. Name.......................: 4d. Organization Name..........: 4e. Street Address.............: 4f. City.......................: 4g. State......................: 4h. Postal Code................: 4i. Country Code...............: 4j. Phone Number...............: 4k. Fax Number.................: 4l. E-Mailbox..................: Technical Contact 5a. NIC Handle (if known)......: PW30 5b. (I)ndividual (R)ole........: Individual 5c. Name.......................: 5d. Organization Name..........: 5e. Street Address.............: 5f. City.......................: 5g. State......................: 5h. Postal Code................: 5i. Country Code...............: 5j. Phone Number...............: 5k. Fax Number.................: 5l. E-Mailbox..................: Billing Contact 6a. NIC Handle (if known)......: PW30 6b. (I)ndividual (R)ole........: Individual 6c. Name.......................: 6d. Organization Name..........: 6e. Street Address.............: 6f. City.......................: 6g. State......................: 6h. Postal Code................: 6i. Country Code...............: 6j. Phone Number...............: 6k. Fax Number.................: 6l. E-Mailbox..................: Primary Name Server 7a. Primary Server Hostname....: dns.bastrop.net 7b. Primary Server Netaddress..: 207.113.199.10 Secondary Name Server(s) 8a. Secondary Server Hostname..: www.austen.com 8b. Secondary Server Netaddress: 207.113.199.70 Invoice Delivery 9. (E)mail (P)ostal...........: E

] Did you move from uls1? Just installed the newer versino of NetMeeting and could not find a "Terry" _______ I see. You must be online and in the directory to be listed. I did for for a little while this afternoon. Woo. What a town, that ULS1. Can't be a girl standing on the street corner in that town. Amy

I've been out setting up the new austen.com machine. You would have been talking to my empty room had I been online. I set up austen.com on an NT server at a new isp that's just down the road from my place in the country. I'm running on beta NT 4.0 so I have to send for a real registered copy. I'll be on NetMeeting most of the rest of this afternoonand this evening. I just got home. I'm pleased with the installation.

Terry, you have a dedicated machine for this? I am feeling guiltier by the second. Going for a walk, rain or no. Talk later, maybe. Amy

http://207.113.199.70 should get you there till the Internet picks up the modification request.

Terry, a very agreable with the right disposition, that of a gentleman you are. All my thanks. Awaiting follow-up info regarding our new castle.

My new isp needs some help! I'm going to have them get their dns straightened out so they can register new domains more quickly. They're good guys, they just need a little boost in this area. I'm going to have a meeting with them today.

Terry -- That's truly what I call gentlemanlike behavior. We are all indebted to you and your kindness.

I'm over at Bastrop Internet Services and I've just successfully completed the Internic registration so pretty soon you should be able to access http://www.austen.com The first person who could get to it, please let me know!

] http://www.austen.com The first person who could get to it, please let me know! _________ Terry I will post this over in the Drawing Room, right near Darcy's sopha so no one shall miss it. Respond here the best thing? We sure appreciate all your trouble. Can you see the files I FTPed over there?

We're going to re-install NT 4.0 so you'll have to ftp them again.

The DNS server at my ISP cannot yet find an entry for http://www.austen.com

]The DNS server at my ISP cannot yet find an entry for http://www.austen.com Nor mine. Myretta

It usually takes a couple of days for the new address to propagate through the net. But a 'whois' search now pulls up the correct ip address.

I can't get there yet either except by way of: http://207.113.199.70

We were down for part of yesterday and last night and for this, I apologize. I just fired up the web server which wasn't running for some reason. I'll be going to a very advanced training program over the next few weeks to learn how to administer a secure, bullet proof web server and I hope to apply a lot of the priniples I learn to keeping this server running. This is the first major outage we've had for a while. I also hope that we can solidify a team and work on some projects together. Please, if you're on the unix dream team, check into projects today and let me know what aspects of building this site and helping with html on other websites that you can commit to. I'm just getting to know everyone and I'm very open to your letters and comments, even if I don't always have the answer. Together, we have a lot more answers. Also, Dave posted the ftp address of the administrators guide in the yapp conference. I believe that will be very useful to our team. I am glad to see folks using the unix login shell.

Folks, Paul says he won't be near a terminal for some time, so he asked me to rela...bleh... the following important announcement...which I will do, if Zoe, the cat, doesn't walk on the keyboard, and as Karl, the golden retriever, crunches on a Nylabone... The IP number for www.austen.com ends in .71, not .70 as stated elsewhere. We now return you to your regularly scheduled banter... --Buddy

I'm over at UT borrowing a terminal ... thanks budmeister.

Go look up HC, Terry. Give us a complete report.

Amy, why didn't you say "Go look up Terry, HC. Give us a complete report."??I actually wasn't on campus today... If you go to the basement of the Undergraduate Library, you can telnet from the X-terminals in the back without having a UT account; that's where I often hang out when I'm on campus...

] Amy, why didn't you say "Go look up Terry, HC. Give us a complete report."?? _____ Because you are the confessed introvert.

I was in the Library for a while. I went cavorting around with my friend Bob, we were in stitchesw most of the afternoon. Buddy left to meet us but forgot his money order to pay his bill. The he got delayed by his coke in the student union. But he finally made it, with some prodding, over to Bobs with his picture to be scanned. Back to watching P&P.

Not sure where this stands now, but my Web browser still can't pull up www.austen.com, get a DNS error instead...

It is not going yet, Kathy.

It should be resolving soon. Matt's working on my primary dns server and bastrop.net is taking the steps they need to register their own domains.