On Fri, Dec 31, 1999 at 10:33:57PM +1100, Geoff Huston wrote:
At 12:26 AM 1/1/00 +1300, Roger De Salis wrote:
Having listened to the World Service, the Internet appears to be going fine. (Hardly an exhaustive test...)
The PSTN is currently suffering severe overloading on international circuits, so I guess we are reduced to email only, rather than fax and phone...
True - I can't get a call into NZ at the moment - but the IP circuits are operating just fine.
Thats a score of the big 0 for circuit switching and 1 for datagrams in the robustness stakes.
"Unofficial sources at CLEAR" :) confirm that test calls made after the transition were successful, and the problem is simple overloading. I've been talking to people in Vanuatu who are having the same problem. Any chance of some unofficial word from Telstra NZ and Telecom on whether their problems are simple overloading, or whether there have been any switching failures contributing to the problem? --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog