Archive for April, 1997

The main ISDN Portmaster has had some ongoing

Saturday, April 26th, 1997

Sat Apr 26 17:52:27 PDT 1997 -- The main ISDN Portmaster has had some ongoing intermittant problems, and I've just upgraded the operating system to fix the documented bugs. The 3.3.2 operating system has been replaced with 3.5, and there's a large list of bugs that they've squashed. Sorry ...

UUNet, Sprintlink, MCI and other major…

Friday, April 25th, 1997

Fri Apr 25 10:06:37 PDT 1997 -- UUNet, Sprintlink, MCI and other major backbone carriers had massive routing instability which affected us. Basicly, a Sprintlink customer was announcing that they were the first class C of every classless (CIDR) block on the Internet, and UUNet and others were listening ...

UUNet is having massive routing problems…

Friday, April 25th, 1997

Fri Apr 25 09:28:35 PDT 1997 -- UUNet is having massive routing problems 'nationwide' which are affecting us. It seems that a Sprintlink customer is announcing that they are us, and UUNet and others are listening to them instead of us. We're working on this now.

For the last two days, we’ve been…

Friday, April 25th, 1997

Fri Apr 25 06:15:28 PDT 1997 -- For the last two days, we've been implementing enhancements to our mail servers' policy enforcement. A most important update: third-party relay has been disabled on our mail servers. Please read www.sonic.net/info/relay/ for details. I'll also make a post to news://sonic.general -Scott

We uncovered a bug in our Cisco 7010′s…

Wednesday, April 23rd, 1997

Wed Apr 23 00:52:11 PDT 1997 -- We uncovered a bug in our Cisco 7010's operating system (oh, lucky us) that caused problems with our 45Mbps HSSI interface. (The HSSI input queue 'wedged' during a reboot.) We've upgraded the router's operating system (IOS - 'THE' Internet Operating System, it's ...

Our DS3 is back up.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 1997

Tue Apr 22 23:54:13 PDT 1997 -- Our DS3 is back up. It turns out we've uncovered a bug in our Cisco 7010's operating system (oh, lucky us). We've adjusted the router configuration so as not to trigger the bug, and rebooted. We're currently getting our ducks in a ...

Our DS3 is still down.

Tuesday, April 22nd, 1997

Tue Apr 22 22:22:46 PDT 1997 -- Our DS3 is still down. It turns out we've uncovered a bug in our Cisco 7010's operating system (oh, lucky us). We're currently getting our ducks in a row to reload with a new operating system. Meanwhile, our backup DS1 with MCI ...

One of our circuits to the Internet is…

Tuesday, April 22nd, 1997

Tue Apr 22 19:22:40 PDT 1997 -- One of our circuits to the Internet is currently down. We are taking measures to get it back up as soon as possible. Users will notice slow performance, but should not notice an outage. We will update when we know more. -Dustin ...

AOL’s mail delivery troubles have gotten a…

Thursday, April 17th, 1997

Thu Apr 17 12:35:13 PDT 1997 -- AOL's mail delivery troubles have gotten a bit better - there are currently only 902 outstanding messages deferred due to load on their mail exchange servers. Compare to ~13,200 this time yesterday, and it looks like they made some fixes or changes. ...

Our 547-2000 ISDN hunt group is back in…

Wednesday, April 16th, 1997

Wed Apr 16 22:04:48 PDT 1997 -- Our 547-2000 ISDN hunt group is back in operation. Apparently, at some point after 6pm, our equipment was unable to register SPIDs with PacBell's ISDN switch. So, a port would be usable until a disconnect, at which point it would go into ...