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
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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
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----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Stevenson
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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