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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (8083)	8/19/1999 12:11:00 AM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

<Be warned Cheryl, Edwarda is a very intelligent lady! > Good:-) LOL - Something got lost in the translation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Internet really comes down to 13 machines, called “root servers.” These are the major “data traffic cops” for the entire Internet. If those puppies blow, the entire global network grinds to halt ... [Interesting that MSNBC says this. Hmmm] NSI warned that if proper precautions aren't taken, “a failure of or interruption to normal business” would occur. NSI's visibility, owing to its fiduciary responsibilities to shareholders, makes it accountable. Not so with the other 11 root servers; those are run by volunteers, computer grad students at universities and other non-governmental organizations around the world ... We do not know whether such domain name server operators have hardware, software or firmware that is Year 2000 compliant.” On Tuesday, CIX's Dooley sought to belay such hyperbole, saying that the “root servers are Y2K-ready, according to their operators.” However, no one has independently verified the statements of the root server operators ... Sounds like Swedish“, Dutch“, German“ ... whatever“ Guess if anyone's interested, they could just <click> on the MSNBC link. msnbc.com Cheryl“