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To: Brady B. who wrote (15129)	11/2/1998 1:16:00 PM
From: aleta	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18444

Brady, I did call and leave a message with Tom Eckman of Sitrick and I also called Keith Fetter of Piedmont Consulting. I spoke with Mr. Fetter briefly and asked what the problem was with the ad servers and told him of the email you had received from SIRC. He said that he had been told Friday the problems with the ad servers had been solved and they were working again. Other then that, there wasn't any further information he could give me. I don't find that the servers are working, do you? Aleta

To: Brady B. who wrote (15129)	11/2/1998 11:13:00 PM
From: Jon Tara	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 18444

Brady, "ads.softbank.net" no longer exists - I now get "invalid address", where previously I was able to do a traceroute and get a dead-end at GlobalCenter. If ZULU if bringing the adserver in-house at a different address, then it will now be necessary for all of their advertising partners (web sites) to change the URLs in their web pages - a pretty tremendous undertaking, to get them all to do it. It would have made much more sense to have keep the ads.softbank.net address going and let people use that address until their contracts expire or they update their web pages anyway. As part of the separation from Softbank, they should have insured that this address would be available to them. If is NOT necessary to change this address to bring the servers in-house. The DNS server can be instruced to point browsers to their in-house servers when accessing "ads.softbank.net". But now there isn't an "ads.softbank.net" at all. As you have suggested, Brady, this should be a COMPLETELY seamless transition, from the point of view of ad partners, and it should only be necessary to run dual servers for 24 hours or so. Once you've changed the DNS, within 24 hours everybody should be on the new server, and the old server can be shut off. I've done this many times myself, and it is NOT difficult. It is NOT a problem that the domain controller and ad server are in different places, and owned by different companies - all it needs is a cooperative webmaster at Softbank who is willing to make the correct DNS entry. Just speculation - but if you ran a web site, and hadn't been payed or had late payments for ads, what would be your reaction if the ad network came to you asking you to modify your web pages to point to a new address? If I were in that situation, I think I'd just remove the ads...