Archive for September, 1997
Monday, September 29th, 1997
Mon Sep 29 19:14:55 PDT 1997 -- We've had some problems this evening with interactions between deployed releases of Livingston's ComOS, which runs on our dialup access servers (pm to pm15). This caused problems with our primary authentication server. Basically, too many requests were generated, and the access server ...
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Monday, September 29th, 1997
Mon Sep 29 06:46:25 PDT 1997 -- The popmail server at pop.sonic.net is back in operation. It stopped working just before 9pm last night. The pop server at sonic.net wasn't affected, nor was outbound email. Our monitoring system didn't see the problem. Currently, we watch the 'inetd' program on ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 1997
Mon Sep 22 23:31:22 PDT 1997 -- I noticed sluggish performance on one of our terminal servers (pm14), and did a bit of packet dumping. It turns out that someone at osu.edu doesn't like us, and was attacking our terminal server. I've filtered this host at our gateway, and ...
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Monday, September 22nd, 1997
Mon Sep 22 22:42:18 PDT 1997 -- One of our 18 network access servers went gone offline, and it just happened to be the first one. I've just rebooted it, and all's well. Establishing a connection may have acted strangly for about 15 minutes. I've flashed up the OS, ...
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Saturday, September 20th, 1997
Sat Sep 20 17:58:23 PDT 1997 -- news.sonic.net was offline for a brief time this afternoon. The server software had some problems and exited. -Dane
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Thursday, September 18th, 1997
Thu Sep 18 14:35:31 PDT 1997 -- Pacific Bell is just about to end an installation discounting program for 128k and above Frame Relay dedicated circuits. If you are thinking about a full time connection, you can save about $700 by ordering before September 26th for installation before December ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 1997
Wed Sep 17 09:49:13 PDT 1997 -- The very first modem in our X2 hunt group had problems this morning, and this seems to have affected the entire group. X2 was unavailable for about 45 minutes. We are currently programming a replacement modem, and X2 will be offline for ...
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Tuesday, September 16th, 1997
Tue Sep 16 09:29:33 PDT 1997 -- We had problems with a number of our terminal servers last night between about 12:15am and 2:15am. v.34 dialup was intermittently unavailable during this time. X2 and ISDN were unaffected. Thanks to Scott for coming in at 2am to work on this. ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 1997
Sun Sep 14 19:28:03 PDT 1997 -- We've got a new disk to put online for /home, but until it goes online, we need users to reduce usage. Please take a look around your home directory if you're a shell user and clean things up a bit. -Dane
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Friday, September 12th, 1997
Fri Sep 12 11:29:15 PDT 1997 -- We're currently rebooting news.sonic.net to bring the new multiprocessor kernel online. We recently upgraded the news server from 128M to 256M of ram, and went to a dual PPro-200mhz motherboard. We've now enabled support for the second CPU. Enjoy!
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