[26472] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: remember the lesson of the sendsys bomb
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joe Shaw)
Sat Jan 1 03:56:35 2000
Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 02:30:10 -0600 (CST)
From: Joe Shaw <jshaw@insync.net>
To: Paul A Vixie <vixie@mibh.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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On Fri, 31 Dec 1999, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> the lesson of the sendsys is that after a 24 or 36 hour period of continuous
> wakefulness, sean and alan and the rest are going to have to SLEEP. *that*
> will be the time when some perfectly normal event like a route spew or heavy
> flap or genetic IOS defect will make itself known, and *that* will be the time
> when Y2K finally kicks us all in the head. not because of the date change,
> but because everybody stayed awake too long and upset their normal vigilence.
Agreed. That's the very reason I didn't want all of our operations staff
to be overseeing the changeover since I didn't think it was necessary. As
an ISP that caters to business customers we probably won't be made aware
of any issues until Monday. Having checked with the on-call perrson this
week, she says no one has made a peep, and our normal weekend ops people
are working their regular schedules.
--
Joseph W. Shaw - jshaw@insync.net
Free UNIX advocate - "I hack, therefore I am."
