For Your Information. rata.vuw.ac.nz was taken down on Sat, 23 Oct 1999 7:37:27 PM. Total outage time was 1 hour, 53 minutes Rata was successfully restored to service. VUW has recently implemented a Change Control Process that issues permits for planned outages which include timely notification to interested clients/customers (Unplanned outages will be notified in future ASAP after the event) In future we will attempt to provide more timely information regarding outage notification of rata.vuw.ac.nz, being one of the secondary nameservers for the nz ccTLD, via NZNOG and any other means that can be identified. Please accept our apologies for short notice, and accept that it has been difficult to discover who to advise of such outages in the past, and NZOG will be included in future. regards Russell Sharpe ------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Sharpe Phone:+64 4 463 5554 Network Manager Fax: +64 21 218 1289 Information Technology Services Cell: +64 21 682 541 Victoria University of Wellington russell.sharpe(a)vuw.ac.nz PO Box 600 Wellington www.vuw.ac.nz New Zealand ------------------------------------------------------------ ----- Original Message ----- From: Richard Stevenson <Richard.Stevenson(a)vuw.ac.nz> To: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 11:19 AM Subject: rata.vuw.ac.nz outage
Hi all
I figured that you may all want to know that rata.vuw.ac.nz, one of the secondary nameservers for the nz ccTLD, will be out of service for an undetermined period of time tomorrow evening (Saturday 23 October 1999).
As part of our Y2K preparations, management here has decided that all of our core systems should be shut down, powered off, left to cool, and then restarted, to see what breaks. This will all happen tomorrow night. The shutdown and startup procedures will be carried out by unqualified staff (i.e. not even Unix-literate) as an experiment in system documentation standards.
I hope to see you all on the other side.
Regards
Richard
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Richard Stevenson Systems Engineer, Information Technology Services Victoria University of Wellington Phone: +64 4 4635051 Fax: +64 4 4635552
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