[1600] in Release_7.7_team
Year 2000 testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Thu Jan 21 18:25:47 1999
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 18:25:40 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: source-developers@MIT.EDU, release-team@MIT.EDU
Okay, it's about time to start doing this year 2000 testing thing we
were going to do.
First, I'd like to identify the people who are going to help. I'll
identify myself and hopefully Dan. Other people's input and help is
welcome.
Second, I'd like to identify what to test. We'd like to test both
that things will work after the year 2000 and that things won't break
crossing the line over to 2000. The server components I can think of
that we need to test are:
Kerberos
DNS (mit.edu and ns.athena.mit.edu)
AFS
Moira
Zephyr
Maybe mail, but that sounds hard, so maybe I'll let the network group
worry about that. Kerberos has already been tested (and I think a
krb4 problem uncovered, I need to ask lxs again), but we'll need that
in our shadow athena setup anyway.
On the client side, there are too many things to test exhaustively.
We should probably copy over a pile of software and give people lots
of opportunity to test things as they think of them.
Third, hardware. I can supply five machines (my crash and burn
machines plus my two PCs running NetBSD and Linux) from my office,
although the PCs only want to be clients. I think we need at least
two servers since we have two DNS sources, and possibly we need more.
We'll also need a chunk of disk space (9GB, maybe?) for anything we
want to copy over from real AFS servers. If people can help identify
other temporary hardware, that would be good.
Fourth, we might want a mailing list if this is going to generate a
lot of traffic. athena-y2k is an obvious name.
