Some notes from NANOG re: New Zealand at the stroke.. and others.
Note: see the log kept by this chap in the url below:
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I was on the phone & IRC with a gentleman from New Zealand just now. He
has posted his status on y2k.win.co.nz. 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. :)
[Regards]
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On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, [so and so] wrote:
> So, overall, I would say that the world is probably not going to end. :)
I'm hoping all goes well later this afternoon when Russia hits midnight in
Moscow (3pm CST). 34% Y2K Compliant... As long as ICBM's don't get
launched I'll consider everything else minor inconveniences. :)
I'm just glad I can spend next New Years (the actual end of the second
millennium if you follow the Gregoarin Calendar) someplace nice in the
Carribean with nice beaches, blue water and no pager/cellphone. I just
don't want to hear from the New Millennium/21st century marketing monster
all next year like we've heard from it this year.
Interesting times, really. Isn't that a curse of some sort?
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>This is causing unusual failure modes for some systems, especially ISDN
>routers which are common in .nz and .au.
I wonder if this is due to the fact that everyone in the time zone is
picking up the phone and looking for a dial tone, or calling all their
friends to see if they survived.
Our local phone company circulated a recommendation to avoid picking up the
phone at midnight. A couple of million people doing this would cause some
undesirable effects (fast busies, no dial tone and so on).
Seeing the grocery store last night, it wouldn't surprise me if most did
this anyway.
And of course, they will blame the ensuing failure on Y2K. Can't win. :)
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