[26339] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Y2k silly season
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Lesher)
Fri Dec 24 08:09:43 1999
From: David Lesher <wb8foz@nrk.com>
Message-Id: <199912241300.IAA13170@sigma.nrk.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu (nanog list)
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 1999 08:00:16 -0500 (EST)
In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19991224071349.007e6340@max.ibm.net.il> from "Hank Nussbacher" at Dec 24, 99 07:13:49 am
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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.
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