Archive for August, 1998
Thursday, August 27th, 1998
Thu Aug 27 01:31:37 PDT 1998 -- Starting sometime just before midnight, a criminal launched a 'denial of service' attack against our network. Service has now been restored; UUNet is continuing their investigation. -Scott
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Thursday, August 27th, 1998
Thu Aug 27 00:47:53 PDT 1998 -- Our network has been under attack for over an hour now. Work to track down the perpetrators and restore service continues... -Scott
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Thursday, August 20th, 1998
Thu Aug 20 19:49:48 PDT 1998 -- AboveNet is currently having router problems and our South Bay dialup users are being affected. The estimated time to repair is 20 minutes per the AboveNet network operations center. -Dane
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Tuesday, August 18th, 1998
Tue Aug 18 15:06:38 PDT 1998 -- It seems we've found a bug in Cisco's implementation of the OSPF routing protocol which caused our core router to reboot. Routes were unavailable for almost 10 minutes while the system came back online and stabilized. Sorry! -Dane
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Monday, August 17th, 1998
Mon Aug 17 14:56:20 PDT 1998 -- We're in the final phases of testing a new web server before deployment. The new server is faster, better, meaner and cooler, and includes lots of hardware and software upgrades. These include complete replacement of the older NCSA web server with Apache ...
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Monday, August 17th, 1998
Mon Aug 17 14:31:34 PDT 1998 -- We've completed migration of local website searching from ht://Dig to Kvack, our new homebrewed efficient-indexing tool. A simple proxy script has replaced the old htsearch CGI; ht://Dig-style searches will be automatically referred to Kvack. Kvack offers individually-customizable search output, among other features. ...
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Friday, August 14th, 1998
Fri Aug 14 11:16:49 PDT 1998 -- In response to recently revealed security holes in many major email clients, Sonic has implemented server side security fixes. You may have read in the press about problems with long filenames and malicious code which affect Microsoft's Outlook, Netscape Communicator and others. ...
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Friday, August 14th, 1998
Fri Aug 14 11:15:40 PDT 1998 -- We have deployed cool new tools to allow users to more easily manage their accounts. These new member tools are available at the following URL:
sonic.sonic.net:443/
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Friday, August 14th, 1998
Fri Aug 14 11:15:33 PDT 1998 -- Sonic lost rather badly to IX Labs in our second annual softball game. I guess it just goes to show who the more technical and nerdy company is. Score was 46 to 6 at the end of the fourth inning, so we ...
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Friday, August 7th, 1998
Fri Aug 7 18:17:07 PDT 1998 -- Sonic tech support will be closed on Saturday the 8th for our second annual softball game against IX Labs. Last year they beat us pretty badly, so we're hoping to do better this time. If you just happen to be a really ...
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