hmm, ok, i shut off my wget of gatekeeper. ill keep the copy of 
ftp.digital.com, and put that on the vaxpower machine on saturday.. 
im glad the machine will still be supported!! 

thanks for getting this information for us!
happy hacking,
isildur

On Tue, 14 May 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:

> i have just communicated with the operators of gatekeeper.dec.com (with
> whom ftp.isc.org shares a cage at PAIX) and was told two things.
> 
> 1. HP plans to fully support gatekeeper (now that the merger is done),
>    and has approved a 1-Terabyte expansion to its disk storage subsystem;
> 
> 2. ftp.digital.com is no longer the same computer as gatekeeper.dec.com,
>    it's a machine on the east coast somewhere.
> 
> i've asked whether there's any problems looming for ftp.digital.com, and
> i'll report back here if i hear anything.  but gatekeeper.dec.com (which
> i had a hand in creating back during my 1998-1993 stint at dec.com) is
> absolutely safe from harm.
>