We are replacing one of our DNS servers (oak.forest.net) today around noon PDT. The old Oak has reached it's end-of-life and will be retired, the new Oak has actually been running successfully (as "pine.forest.net") for quite some time with several test domains. This change should be completely transparent to our users and network, as it will involve removing the old oak from the network as we change the new oak's IP address. We will be making no DNS zone file changes between 11 AM and 5 PM today.

For those interested in history: This will be our third "oak.forest.net" server. The first was a Sun Microsystems SparcStation 5 that went live in February of 1995. The second is a Sun Microsystems UltraSparc 5 that went live in January of 1999. It is being retired today and replaced with a more modern machine running a current version of the BIND DNS server software. Oak, along with Willow, and occasionally through our history a server named Pine, have been the anchors of our domain name system.