We're all doomed. Techweek reports Cisco CEO John Chambers plans to be working with his programmers on New Year's Eve. Anyone who has ever worked on a software project knows what kind of code gets produced by programmers while the CEO is hanging around :-) http://www.techweek.com/articles/6-28-99/countdow.htm On to something a little more serious, although its going to sound a bit strange. Imagine you had a special phone which always worked and can call any number in the world. It has just one limitation. The phone has only 9 speed-dial keys. And no cheating, you can't call the AT&T/MCI/Sprint/etc operator to dial a number which wasn't pre-programmed, and no third-party call forwarding. What Internet specific resources would you like to have access? Assume police, fire, medical, telephone repair, generator repair, etc are already handled. Here was my list: - Cisco TAC (Have you paid your IOS service contract yet?) - MFS (MAE-East tech on duty) - Merit (Route Server, Gated) - Internet Software Consortium (Have you paid your BIND service contract yet?) - UUNET NOC (if the 800lbs ISP falls over, we're all going to feel it) - Sendmail, Inc (after TCP/IP, mail is something all NOC's depend on) - Sun Microsystems (for those not running Linux) - ARIN (assuming APNIC and RIPE are mirrored) - My home phone (Family is important too) I went through my old tickets, and besides telephone repair, its remarkable how infrequently most of the Internet stuff we depend on breaks. So I based my list not on how likely something would break, but on how bad it would be if it did break. Nothing may happen, but assuming such a list affected the setting of priorities, any changes to my list and why? -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
I think that your local pizza/sub place should be on that list, too....ya hafta eat! -- Thanks and regards, Dave A Onvoy/MRNet - Internet in Minnesota since 1987 -----/|\--------------------------------------------------------------+ - / | \ Dave Bergum, Sr. Network Engineer <bergum@MR.Net> | - /__|__\ 2829 University Av SE, Gab: (612)362-5812 | - j---'---/ Suite #200 Fax: (612)362-5899 | -~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Minneapolis, MN 55414 Beep: (612)203-1605 | ----------------------------------------------------------------------+
Hot Diggety! On a bright and sunny day, Sean Donelan was rumored to have said...
Here was my list:
- Cisco TAC (Have you paid your IOS service contract yet?) - MFS (MAE-East tech on duty) - Merit (Route Server, Gated) - Internet Software Consortium (Have you paid your BIND service contract yet?) - UUNET NOC (if the 800lbs ISP falls over, we're all going to feel it) - Sendmail, Inc (after TCP/IP, mail is something all NOC's depend on) - Sun Microsystems (for those not running Linux) - ARIN (assuming APNIC and RIPE are mirrored) - My home phone (Family is important too)
I went through my old tickets, and besides telephone repair, its remarkable how infrequently most of the Internet stuff we depend on breaks. So I based my list not on how likely something would break, but on how bad it would be if it did break.
Nothing may happen, but assuming such a list affected the setting of priorities, any changes to my list and why?
You asked :-) I could eliminate several of those items on the list by having one or two *really* clueful senior systems administrator-type people to handle the BIND, Sendmail, and OS specific stuff around on that evening; with source available, or a lot of clue, they can usually hack together pretty much any solution imaginable. (even including date changes to delay things to buy time to contact support people if absolutely necessary. Fails with embedded systems, though. Unless good with EEPROM programmers and reverse engineering...) I might also include MERIT on the list of software for system admins and network admins, as well. Per definition, it doesn't rearrange any priorities per se; just clears up space to put other worthy items on the list. Folks might want to also check contracts regarding support responses. Best single Y2K move? Don't have your top tech folks party that night, so they're in some condition to take the Y2K calls starting at midnight :-) If all else fails...call Ghostbusters :-) Perhaps they handle the ghosts of Y2K ;-) -Dan
We're all doomed. Techweek reports Cisco CEO John Chambers plans to be working with his programmers on New Year's Eve. Anyone who has ever worked on a software project knows what kind of code gets produced by programmers while the CEO is hanging around :-) http://www.techweek.com/articles/6-28-99/countdow.htm
Who are you gonna call gets worse on some products, like the 5300 in voice applications. As I've been reading the documentation, a song was singing at the edge of my consciousness. OK. It supports H.323 Gatekeepers. It also supports AAA with RADIUS and TACACS+, allowing cryptographic user authentication...cryptography....ah....keys....yep...the AAA server is the Keymaster. So we have a product that supports the Gatekeeper and the Keymaster. Want to get your NOC slimed?
How about direct dial numbers (not toll-free). What would happen if you could not dial a toll free number, but could call directly. How many people know the Cisco TAC direct number in the US? On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
I went through my old tickets, and besides telephone repair, its remarkable how infrequently most of the Internet stuff we depend on breaks. So I based my list not on how likely something would break, but on how bad it would be if it did break.
Nothing may happen, but assuming such a list affected the setting of priorities, any changes to my list and why? -- Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO Affiliation given for identification not representation
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