Re: Y2K rollover Vigilance

["Saravana Ram" <Ram () POP Jaring My>]

> I would like to get the wizards' take on what people are doing with respect
> to staying connected and functional on the Internet during the rollover to
> the year 2000.  Do most organizations seem to be leaning towards reduced
> exposure (i.e. shutting down incoming SMTP, restricting download cpability,
> etc.), total blackout, or business as usual.

If one is doubt of the Y2k compliance of their webservers, mailservers,
routers, and firewalls, he/she should have done their homework by now.

All machines should have been taken off-air and had their clocks changed to
pre-Y2K, watch the rollover to check for any problems, reset the clocks to the
real time, and put back all machines on-line. This, of cource, should have
been done months ago.

Firewalls are generaly new products, and wont have Y2k rollover problems. Most
people run webservers that are fairly new too. Routers should have been
checked long ago.

If everything has been tested before to be Y2k-okay, then I see no reason to
reduce exposure or shut things off.