Archive for May, 1997
Tuesday, May 27th, 1997
Tue May 27 20:35:45 PDT 1997 -- Sonic is expanding it's offices, and you can watch the work in progress. Using an Axis Neteye 200 which we've mounted on the wall in our new office space, you can view the construction as it progresses over the next month. Real ...
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Friday, May 23rd, 1997
Fri May 23 17:34:26 PDT 1997 -- Sonoma Interconnect will be closed on Monday May 26th for Memorial day. Have a nice long weekend and hope for good weather! -Dane
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Thursday, May 22nd, 1997
Thu May 22 09:53:55 PDT 1997 -- Our FTP server was impacted by a large number of off-site users downloading a pirated registered version of Duke Nukem 3D. Please don't distribute pirated software from our FTP server! For a few hours this morning local users were unable to login ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 1997
Tue May 20 10:17:31 PDT 1997 -- As you may have heard, Windows systems have a networking bug which may allow a remote system or user to crash your desktop system while you are connected to the Internet. To avoid this, Sonic has implemented filters in our routers which ...
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Tuesday, May 20th, 1997
Tue May 20 14:07:11 PDT 1997 -- In our continuing efforts to cut down on unsolicited commercial email and SPAM, we have implemented domain name verification on inbound mail. This means that we'll no longer get mail from make@money.fast, no@reply.here and other such bogus domains. Post to the newsgroup ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 1997
Thu May 8 11:09:08 PDT 1997 -- We had some stuck talk daemon processes and decided to reboot the shell server to get rid of them. The server was offline for about 3 minutes. Also - folks, please don't run persistant processes like 'eggdrop' and other bots and daemons. ...
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Thursday, May 8th, 1997
Thu May 8 01:11:37 PDT 1997 -- Important: As the next step in our attempt to stamp out SPAM and UCA mail, I've implemented filters which restrict our dialup users from using off site SMTP (mail) relays. As all dialup customers should be using 'mail.sonic.net' as their SMTP relay, ...
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Wednesday, May 7th, 1997
Wed May 7 23:12:54 PDT 1997 -- Two of our terminal servers had some problems with very high network load - seems that someone at the University of Delaware doesn't like us. We also had a seemingly unrelated problem with our mail server which forced us to reboot it. ...
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