Unnamed Administration sources reported that Hank Nussbacher said:
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. :-)
Not much. The switches are VERY well designed and tested; Gatesware should dream of doing as well. See the discussion w/ folks who run same in comp.dcom.telecom.tech.. Rather than crashing; they protect themselves by suspending non-essential dianostics & maintenance, then delaying/denying dial tone to callers as needed. While lots of folks may be annoyed, I doubt switches will croak. -- A host is a host from coast to coast.................wb8foz@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