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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">This message serves as a notification that the Operational Testing and Evaluation environment will be down this afternoon begining around 11 AM for updates and
scheduled work.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Scheduled Work:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The OT&E whois and other application servers will now update to code matching production versions with refreshed database data.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Querying
<a href="http://whois.ote.arin.net" id="OWAf994dcbb-b369-5ac7-7e9a-404b1fafba02" class="external-link OWAAutoLink" rel="nofollow" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;" data-loopstyle="linkonly">
whois.ote.arin.net</a> will not respond until this maintenance has completed.</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Expected Duration:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">6 hours</span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Updates:</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Following the outage there will be a follow up message indicating completion.</span></p>
<pre><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Michael McMahon</div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><i>Systems Adminstrator</i></div><div style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><b>ARIN</b></div></pre>
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