Access has been restored in the South Bay,…
Thursday, January 29th, 1998Thu Jan 29 12:51:42 PST 1998 -- Access has been restored in the South Bay, and all's well. The OC48 circuit to MFS is back online. -Dane
Archive for January, 1998
Thu Jan 29 12:51:42 PST 1998 -- Access has been restored in the South Bay, and all's well. The OC48 circuit to MFS is back online. -Dane
There was a small fire in our South Bay…
Thursday, January 29th, 1998Thu Jan 29 12:27:50 PST 1998 -- There was a small fire in our South Bay facility, and access is currently offline. All bay area numbers are unavailable. At approximately 11:00 this morning, a monitoring box installed by MFS for their OC48 equipment ignited. MFS is on site, and ...
We’re still having problems with Pacific…
Thursday, January 29th, 1998Thu Jan 29 17:55:39 PST 1998 -- We're still having problems with Pacific Bell's provisioning and USR's implimentation of the DMS ISDN switch protocol, and we haven't made much progress with it today. Pacific Bell has promised that they will make more headway tommorow, and we're hoping to reprovision ...
We’ve isolated the problem with false busy…
Wednesday, January 28th, 1998Wed Jan 28 18:30:47 PST 1998 -- We've isolated the problem with false busy signals as a bug in the implimentation of the DMS 100 custom switch protocol in USR's MP16I equipment. We've asked PacBell to reprovision all of the lines which are affected (104 BRI lines, 208 ports) ...
We’ve got partial deployment of our new ISDN…
Tuesday, January 27th, 1998Tue Jan 27 17:32:39 PST 1998 -- We've got partial deployment of our new ISDN PRI access server, nas21, a USR/3Com Total Control Enterprise Network Hub. This unit now serves overflow for analog and X2 callers in Sonoma County, plus dual-B ISDN callers. We're continuing to have problems with ...
Our dedicated T1 circuit to MCI was offline…
Sunday, January 25th, 1998Sun Jan 25 10:49:24 PST 1998 -- Our dedicated T1 circuit to MCI was offline today from about 1AM until 10:30AM because of what appear to be Pacific Bell line problems or MCI backhaul problems. Because of our investment in fully redundant intelligent routing, no customer services were affected. ...
Our Network Appliance upgrade went well, with
Sunday, January 25th, 1998Sun Jan 25 10:43:48 PST 1998 -- Our Network Appliance upgrade went well, with total downtime of 21 minutes between 4:05AM and 4:26AM. The Network Appliance uses it's main memory to cache disk array read requests, and with the 64 megs in the default configuration, it could only cache ...
We’ve rescheduled upgrades for our Network…
Saturday, January 24th, 1998Sat Jan 24 01:24:49 PST 1998 -- We've rescheduled upgrades for our Network Appliance NFS filter for Sunday morning at 4am. As this filer handles storage for many services, local shell, mail and web hosting will be offline for about 10 minutes for this upgrade. We will be upgrading ...
Our news server is having some troubles this…
Saturday, January 24th, 1998Sat Jan 24 01:22:19 PST 1998 -- Our news server is having some troubles this evening. It crashed at about 9pm, and as of now, it's still checking it's massive filesystems. During this time, users can read news, and make posts, but the posts won't be injected into the ...
We’ve just added more drive space to our…
Tuesday, January 20th, 1998Tue Jan 20 19:41:32 PST 1998 -- We've just added more drive space to our Network Appliance NFS filer. The filer now has eight four gig disks in service, including the parity disk and a hot spare. This upgrade was done during heavy utilization, and because of the way ...