Archive for August, 1997

We’re having trouble currently with our…

Tuesday, August 26th, 1997

Tue Aug 26 07:23:26 PDT 1997 -- We're having trouble currently with our primary authentication and DNS system, sonic.sonic.net. However, because we have backups for these operations, users should not notice an interruption of service if their software is properly configured. If you have trouble this AM, check that ...

Quite a few upgrades this morning, including…

Monday, August 25th, 1997

Mon Aug 25 05:34:36 PDT 1997 -- Quite a few upgrades this morning, including moving Ultra (our news server) to its new home: a 256Mb, dual-processor Pentium Pro. This is the first host in this round of upgrades, which will include Sub (inbound mail, pop3), Marine (outbound mail), Bolt ...

A few more upgrades for Monday morning,…

Sunday, August 24th, 1997

Sun Aug 24 20:41:26 PDT 1997 -- A few more upgrades for Monday morning, beginning at 2am...again, downtime should be minimal.

Sonic will be closed for Labor day, Monday…

Thursday, August 21st, 1997

Thu Aug 21 11:01:08 PDT 1997 -- Sonic will be closed for Labor day, Monday September 1st. Have a nice long weekend! -Dane

We will be doing a number of upgrades on…

Thursday, August 21st, 1997

Thu Aug 21 11:00:17 PDT 1997 -- We will be doing a number of upgrades on Sunday the 24th starting at 2am PST. Upgrades include the news and web servers, and we'll also be moving the news disk array and also the FTP server. Power is being re-routed for ...

As you may have noticed, some parts of Sonoma

Tuesday, August 19th, 1997

Tue Aug 19 15:42:26 PDT 1997 -- As you may have noticed, some parts of Sonoma County are currently without power, and we had a minor power problem here. Coincidentally, we also had a problem with the yp/nis system on thunder.sonic.net, and it was down for a quick reboot. ...

On Thunder (our web server), we increased…

Monday, August 18th, 1997

Mon Aug 18 12:35:59 PDT 1997 -- On Thunder (our web server), we increased some resource values in the kernel, replaced HTTPd with a new build, and configured the system to run with more simultaneous web processes. It's behaving much better now (knock on wood. :) It appears that ...

We’re having continued intermittent…

Monday, August 18th, 1997

Mon Aug 18 12:27:59 PDT 1997 -- We're having continued intermittent performance on the web server, and we've decided to reboot the system, as it's been online for about two months. It will be back online shortly, it's currently checking it's massive filesystem for errors. -Dane

The web server is again having problems, this

Sunday, August 17th, 1997

Sun Aug 17 22:16:50 PDT 1997 -- The web server is again having problems, this time with odd memory segmentation violations. It's status program has paged us with a number of brief temporary outages this afternoon, and it's watchdog routine has restarted it quite a few times because of ...

The web server had some problems with it’s…

Friday, August 15th, 1997

Fri Aug 15 19:00:51 PDT 1997 -- The web server had some problems with it's internal socket communications, and was unable to serve cgi's for a brief time. All's well now. -Dane