December 1999 - Test - lists.nanog.org

Re: More on Y2K "glitches"....
by Vern Paxson 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,33324,00.html Hmmmm, a pretty misleading article. The headline is "The Glitches Start Marching In", but it reports exactly one glitch, the one we already heard about, and then has a nine-bullet list that the headline makes you think will be additional glitches, but in fact is a list of precautionary measures various people have taken. Vern

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Even Area 51 has DACS problems
by Sean Donelan 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

Sprint filed an outage report covering Area 51 (yes, that Area 51) last week. A circuit breaker was turned off disrupting 8 DS3s, long distance and "special services." Full details are not known. Power was restored to the DACS shelf and service restored after about 5 hours. http://www.fcc.gov/Bureaus/Engineering_Technology/Filings/Network_Outage/19…

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The Y2K glitches start being reported
by Sean Donelan 29 Dec '99

29 Dec '99

And it begins, the early reports from England on a particular POS machine. Although this glitch was related to Y2K, POS machines are flaky on the best of days. >There have been some problems with a small percentage (5%) of point of sale >terminals (the card readers in shops that are used to process credit and debit >card transactions). The affected terminals show an error message which simply >needs to be cleared to allow the transaction to be processed. Although there >is a simple workaround, details were not immediately available to all affected >retailers, so consumers were inconvenienced yesterday. Now that the details >have been widely disseminated, consumers are much less likely to be affected. > >The problem is restricted to some of the machines produced by Racal Electronics >plc. Although the fault relates to the Y2K bug, it will disappear on 1.1.2000. > >This is only a minor glitch. It is typical of the sort of problem that it was >expected would need to be dealt with over this period. This problem does not >affect any other point of sale terminals, ATMs, the cards themselves or other >methods of payment, and does not lead us to expect any significant problems in >the financial sector.

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Re: Y2k silly season
by Dean Anderson 28 Dec '99

28 Dec '99

Around 03:58 PM 12/27/1999 -0500, rumor has it that David Lesher said: >And in the words of an official Y2K plan from an unnamed agency: > > Do not tie up the phone lines; send a fax instead. This is just a typo. It should read: send an IP-fax instead.... ;-) --Dean ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Plain Aviation, Inc dean(a)av8.com LAN/WAN/UNIX/NT/TCPIP http://www.av8.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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Re: US Federal Y2K web site is now online
by Sean Donelan 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

On Mon, 27 December 1999, Eric Germann wrote: > Maybe they could use the marspolarlander.org infrastructure since NASA > doesn't have a use for it now ... At a post-mortum after one of the big events last year, I suggested the federal agencies might want to join together and create a way they could share their web infrastructures for these big events. Different agencies face this problem on a regular basis. Each time they set up a one of a kind project. Afterwards, the vendors pack up all the fancy boxes and go home. If the agencies had a pre-arranged way to distribute information through all the servers they have, they have a lot of server power spread out across many different backbones and could re-use what they've learned from the previous events. On one hand, its good because each project gets the latest, greatest boxes. Government procurement policies aren't designed for the bleeding edge. Allowing vendors to show off their wares, gets a lot of bang for the government buck. On the other hand, it takes six months to get enough network and server power ready. If an agency needs to set up an event site on short notice, they are S.O.L. Since no one has been completely successfull handling event sites, maybe having different vendors experiment with different solutions is best. According to Koskinen the new www.y2k.gov web site can handle an estimated 40 million hits a day. Yes, I know there already was a site using the www.y2k.gov address. It handled about 1 million hits a month. If you remember your performance and simulation class in college, there are all sorts of queues in queuing theory. You get very different results depending on the predicted arrival rates.

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US Federal Y2K web site is now online
by Sean Donelan 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

The US Federal Y2K web site www.y2k.gov is up and online. Of course, the government and the contractors believe they have prepared as well as they can. But as we've seen with event sites throughout the years, traffic always seems to exceed everyone's expectations. I read an interview with one of the spokespeople who indicated the expectation is most of the load will come from the media, and the media web sites will distribute the load. In other words, if you can't get to www.y2k.gov or www.iy2kcc.org; CNN.com, MSNBC.com, bbc.co.uk, etc will have the same information.

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rwhois.net?
by Horn, Michael 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

Anyone know if www.rwhois.net is off-line? I can't reach it, and it can't be reached from any of the looking glass sites I checked it from. Also is there another ftp site that has current rwhois server and client code? ARIN and Internic seem to have stopped putting up the latest stuff. TIA. Mike

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Re: Y2k silly season
by Robert Cannon 27 Dec '99

27 Dec '99

>From the Federal Governments Y2K Consumer Information Pages "An unusually large number of telephone calls are likely to be made on New Years Eve and on New Year's Day, 2000. This high traffic could cause delays and other problems on the telephone network unrelated to any Year 2000 problems. For this reason, we ask that you minimize telephone use on New Years Eve or Day." http://www.y2k.gov/java/Y2K_message.htm -Robert Cannon Speaking almost entirely for myself ------Original Message------ From: Hank Nussbacher <hank(a)att.net.il> To: nanog(a)merit.edu Sent: December 24, 1999 5:13:49 AM GMT Subject: Re: Y2k silly season In regards to self fulfilling prophecies: The phone companies won't admit it but they are scared that at 1 second past midnight, everyone will say to themselves, "Hmmm, lights are still on, I wonder if the phones have stopped working?" and then within 1 minute, millions of people will be lifting their phones off the hooks to check dial-tone. You know what happens when that happens. :-) -Hank ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com?sr=mc.mk.mcm.tag001

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Re: Fiber versus 24inch water main
by Ron Buchalski 26 Dec '99

26 Dec '99

>From: Sean Donelan <sean(a)donelan.com> >To: nanog(a)merit.edu >Subject: Fiber versus 24inch water main >Date: 24 Dec 1999 17:52:31 -0800 > > >On Thursday traffic was backed up around my house. A contractor installing >fiber along the highway bored through a 24inch water main. You can see >the results in this picture. > >http://www.stlnet.com/postnet/stories.nsf/ByDocID/049A42145BD8D1F8862568510… > > > Cool picture. It's too bad that we couldn't get a comparable picture of data bits spewing into the air when a fiber is cut! ;-) -rb ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com

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Re: Y2k silly season
by David Lesher 25 Dec '99

25 Dec '99

Unnamed Administration sources reported that Chris Woodfield said: > > And people will pick up the phones and not get dialtones, and they'll > think the phones are out, and next thing you know... They'll: Revolt; storming the White House while armed with magnums... full of cheap California champagne.. or Jump off a bridge with the neighbors or Go postal or release ebola into the air at Time Square or Blame Judge Greene and go get more drunk. I think the most likely is the last one.. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz(a)nrk.com & no one will talk to a host that's close........[v].(301) 56-LINUX Unless the host (that isn't close).........................pob 1433 is busy, hung or dead....................................20915-1433

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