IP: Senate web site dies, Clinton stresses Net-reliability

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2000 21:05:27 -0500
>From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
>Subject: Senate web site dies, Clinton stresses Net-reliability
>
>http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34362,00.html
>
>The Crash of a Dot.Gov, by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com)
>
>Wired, 15 Feb 2000
>
>As government aides were frantically preparing for the president's
>last-minute Internet-reliability summit with technology leaders, thousands
>of visitors couldn't reach the U.S. Senate's own Web site.  It was offline
>for over nine hours Monday, from early afternoon to after 11 p.m.  (EST) due
>to technical problems, Senate officials said.  The embarrassing site failure
>comes just as the U.S. government is telling private firms how important it
>is that they increase the reliability and security of their own networks.
>"Our administration has been working for years now to reduce vulnerabilities
>in government computers and to encourage the private sector to do more,"
>President Clinton said before Tuesday's one-hour meeting with corporate
>information officers, academics, and Cabinet members.
>
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