December 31, 1999
Web posted at: 11:15 a.m. EST (1615 GMT)

From staff and wire reports

AGANA, Guam (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy and Air Force both reported no Y2K computer related problems at military installations in Guam, the first U.S. territory to enter the new year.

"We are fully mission ready," said Rear Adm. Tom Fellin of the U.S. Navy.

Maj. Gen. Daniel Dick of the U.S. Air Force also reported "no problems."

Aviation officials say the next arrival of the year 2000 in U.S. airspace comes at 7 p.m. EST Friday night, when it's midnight, Greenwich Mean Time.

At the Pentagon, the U.S. military said there were no problems at the installation in the Kwajalein Atoll, the first U.S. military installation to ring in 2000.

But the Pentagon did report a problem on the Web -- one caused by human error, not a computer bug, officials said.

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Public access to the Pentagon's main Web site, DefenseLINK, was down. The Pentagon intended to use the Web site as its primary way to reassure the public that Y2K was causing no problems for the Department of Defense.

Pentagon officials say public access to the site was accidentally disabled yesterday, when other Web sites were being taken down intentionally to prevent mischief from hackers.

In bringing back the site, Defense Department technicians somehow corrupted the domain name server, which translates IP addresses into names.

A spokesman said Pentagon computer specialists restored public access at about 10:30 a.m. EST.

The International Y2K Cooperation Center in Washington reports that computer systems are running fine in New Zealand, the first industrialized country to ring in the New Year. However, cell phones networks were reportedly very congested as revelers made calls and clogged up the lines.

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The Internet was also surviving Y2K so far, although handling continued congestion in New Zealand. Networks in Fiji, Tonga and Australia were doing well.

Net performance measurement firm Keynote Systems is testing major Web sites within each time zone to check how they handle the rollover.

The New Zealand site, govt.nz, responded at an average of 6.2 seconds since the change. This is slower than what it had been before Y2K. The slowest times were recorded immediately after midnight local time.

"With the crossing of the Millennium into it's second time zone we are seeing some performance anomalies that appear to be caused by curious Internet users testing their system. Overall the Internet is absorbing this in rush of traffic and is showing the resilience it was designed for," according to the Keynote site.

This theory is bolstered by reports of congestion on Sydney, Australia, servers about 30 minutes after Y2K hit.

The Keynote Web sites are owned by Internet providers, computer firms, government and media sites. Keynote will test the People's Daily newspaper in China, the Vatican's site in Vatican City, the White House site in Washington, and Cisco Systems in San Francisco, among others.

The Internet comprises millions of routers, switches, name servers and other specialized computers that manage and carry Internet traffic. A Y2K-related problem in any of these components could produce a cascading effect on Internet performance.