January 2000 - NANOG - lists.nanog.org

much ado about nothing
by Bill Becker 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

Sat Jan 1 00:55:30 EST 2000 Here in EST -0500 everything is working better than it did an hour ago. Apparantly drunks use less bandwidth. Good night. See you all at the beach next year. Bill

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y2k rollover and Typhoon/Cyclone (fwd)
by Paul Mansfield 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

Not really network issue, but it does seem to be a growing issue. Basically they reject news with date 1900 (Good Thing), and also 00 (Bad Thing). Had a response from bCandid (aka Highwind). Worth watching your news logs and making test posts! Usual disclaimers apply. Paul -- P Mansfield, Senior SysAdmin PSINet UK Ltd, +44-1223-577611 fax:~577600 ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 31 Dec 1999 21:53:30 -0700 From: bCandid Support - Software <software(a)req.is.bcandid.com> Subject: y2k rollover Gentlemen, Developers and operations are in full swing dealing with this issue. I have no further update information for you at this time. As soon as the developers get back to me on this problem. I will let you know. *** update Information I received while typing this. The problem seems to be related to RFC 850, two-digit corruptions of ctime dates. There are no other known RFC compliancy issues at this time. As I understand these date formate are fairly old, and not in widespread use. I will you keep you posted. Sincerely, Chris Hyden Customer Care bCandid Corp

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tsmon and y2k
by Tony Mumm 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

I am attempting to confirm a y2k issue with the software tsmon (www.tsmon.com) and certain terminal servers. At the Y2k rollover GMT tonight, the tsmon server started to log people off for being on over 24 hours. This only happened to people that logged on after 2000 GMT. This is monitoring 3com HiperARCs with at least software 4.1.59 and higher. Anyone else experience this problem? I verified that another we manage with its own tsmon had the same problem. I'm very surprised that no Y2k verification was done on this software. Thanks, Tony -- Tony Mumm Lead Network Technician - netINS, Inc.

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Report from New Zealand
by I Am Not An Isp 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

I was on the phone & IRC with a gentleman from New Zealand just now. He has posted his status on http://y2k.win.co.nz/cgi-bin/y2k.cgi. He asked me to post some observations to NANOG because he is not on NANOG-post (and because the FGC conference call is rather useless with all that background noise due to people leaving their speaker phones on without mute - but it would have been nice, thanx for trying Alan). He says that the Internet operated pretty much without a flaw, although utilization probably went up more than normal. :) However, the phone system is almost completely useless. He has two phones in his office and cannot call one from the other. (Although he says they are on different exchanges, so they might not hit the same CO.) Dial tone is there, but after dialing numbers, just dead air. Which is weird, because when I called him it rang and he picked up, no static or anything. (We do have a switch in NZ, but we have to ride the local PTT to the destination phone.) This is causing unusual failure modes for some systems, especially ISDN routers which are common in .nz and .au. So, overall, I would say that the world is probably not going to end. :) TTFN, patrick -- I Am Not An Isp - www.ianai.net ISPF, The Forum for ISPs by ISPs, <http://www.ispf.com> "Think of it as evolution in action." - Niven & Pournelle (OhMyGod - Watch out 'Net, I got enable again! ;-)

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Curious thing in a Cisco router
by Rubens Kuhl Jr. 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

While monitoring GMT Y2K progression on a Cisco router, something curious showed up: R6(11)-L16#sh clock 22:01:02.910 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 R6(11)-L16#sh clock 22:01:04.191 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 R6(11)-L16#sh clock 22:01:04.729 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 R6(11)-L16#sh clock 22:01:05.416 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 R6(11)-L16#sh clock .22:08:22.460 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 R6(11)-L16#sh clock .22:08:24.516 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 R6(11)-L16#sh clock .22:08:35.599 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 Notice the dot before the time; it was not appearing before, and even on the first sample after GMT Y2K-rollover (local time is GMT -0200). It now shows up on every 'show clock'. Any similar results on any other Cisco shop ? Rubens Kuhl Jr.

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RE: Curious thing in a Cisco router
by Rubens Kuhl Jr. 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

Confirmed. 'show ntp status' was showing master (USNO) in desync; now that NTP resynced, the dot disapparead. May be USNO has become a bit overloaded with NTP requests soon after the roll-over. Rubens Kuhl Jr. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jamie Panagos [mailto:jpanagos@bbnplanet.com] > Sent: Friday, December 31, 1999 10:21 PM > To: Rubens Kuhl Jr. > Cc: nanog(a)merit.edu > Subject: Re: Curious thing in a Cisco router > > > I have seen it before, it doesnt have anything to do with Y2k, just > with Cisco being iffy on time. > > > > Jamie Panagos > Network Analyst > GTE Internetworking > Office: > (781) 262-6488 > Pager: > (800) 759-8888 > PIN: 1752832 > 1752832(a)skytel.com > > On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Rubens Kuhl Jr. wrote: > > > > > > > > > While monitoring GMT Y2K progression on a Cisco router, > something curious > > showed up: > > > > R6(11)-L16#sh clock > > 22:01:02.910 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 > > R6(11)-L16#sh clock > > 22:01:04.191 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 > > R6(11)-L16#sh clock > > 22:01:04.729 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 > > R6(11)-L16#sh clock > > 22:01:05.416 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 > > R6(11)-L16#sh clock > > .22:08:22.460 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 > > R6(11)-L16#sh clock > > .22:08:24.516 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 > > R6(11)-L16#sh clock > > .22:08:35.599 Brazil/East(DST) Fri Dec 31 1999 > > > > > > Notice the dot before the time; it was not appearing before, > and even on the > > first sample after GMT Y2K-rollover (local time is GMT -0200). > It now shows > > up on every 'show clock'. > > > > > > Any similar results on any other Cisco shop ? > > > > > > Rubens Kuhl Jr. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >

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[shadyron@total-bollo.cx: What happened in the UK]
by Joe Abley 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

----- Forwarded message from Gary Smith <shadyron(a)total-bollo.cx> ----- Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 01:37:52 +0000 (UTC) From: Gary Smith <shadyron(a)total-bollo.cx> X-Sender: shadyron@shady To: jabley(a)patho.gen.nz Subject: What happened in the UK X-To-Cellnet-SMS-Address: shadyron(a)genie.co.uk X-To-Orange-SMS-Address: shadyron(a)locust.co.uk Sorry, I haven't got NANOG posting access at the moment - could you forward this to them for me? We rolled over 1h35m ago. Rollover saw (locally) two of the four mobile networks drop the users in the room with me (ie they saw coverage totally drop). However, the other two networks: Orange & One2One were fine, with users being able to make and receive calls fine. Attempting to call from Orange -> {Cellnet | Vodafone} received either line busy or network busy. BT was alternating between telephone network being busy and being able to connect a call. However, a dialtone was given instantly. There seems to be no obvious network problems here, and all hardware is fine. Err, that's about it. :^) -- Gary Smith | "When the hostess greeted me at the door dressed DS Communications | in nothing but strategically placed vise-grips, I Tel: +44 7050 612665 | realised that was going to be an interesting party Fax: +44 7050 693131 | after all" -- Peter Da Silva ----- End forwarded message -----

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Re: UK GMT roll over
by Paul Ferguson 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

Just a minor problem (with your mailer/machine?) - >Date: Sat, 1 Jan 100 01:02:34 +0000 (GMT) ^^^^ Oops. :-) - paul > >GMT and CET rolled over without any major incidents. The cellular >networks were busy but thats to be expected. > >Regards, >Neil. >-- >Neil J. McRae - Alive and Kicking. >neil(a)DOMINO.ORG >

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by Robert Mathews-ICICX 01 Jan '00

01 Jan '00

<My apologies for responding publically about this.. but, I accidentally deleted Kuniaki's E.mail Address> Kuniaki Kondo: I would like to COMMEND you, and your colleagues on your excellent efforts related to: http://www.iaj.or.jp/y2kcc/report_e/ All my best, Robert Mathews. ------------------------------------------------------ Robert Mathews Select Professor of Science US National Security Affairs & Industrial Preparedness University of Hawaii Telephone: + 808.974.7383 Telecopier: + 808.974.7693 E.mail: mathews(a)CSATI.EDU ------------------------------------------------------

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