Archive for December, 1998

All offsite remote access equipment has been…

Thursday, December 31st, 1998

Thu Dec 31 11:10:11 PST 1998 -- All offsite remote access equipment has been upgraded to ComOS 3.8.2. This does not affect equipment located in Santa Rosa. This version (just released) fixes many connectivity problems. For a full list of fixes, you can check out the release notes at ...

Above.net had a systems crash at…

Wednesday, December 23rd, 1998

Wed Dec 23 15:25:34 PST 1998 -- Above.net had a systems crash at approximately 2:30 PM today that affected dial up access to some areas in the South Bay. The outage lasted for about 1 hour. They have resolved the problem and our Above.net POP is now back online. ...

Between about 1:50pm and 2:11pm, one of our…

Saturday, December 19th, 1998

Sat Dec 19 15:36:32 PST 1998 -- Between about 1:50pm and 2:11pm, one of our web servers ('Storm,' www.sonic.net) stopped serving web pages. Investigation reveals an almost certain explanation: a CGI program caused the system to become 'swap-bound' (that is, doing a lot of work using disk-based virtual memory). ...

We wish everyone a happy and joyous holiday…

Wednesday, December 16th, 1998

Wed Dec 16 17:04:20 PST 1998 -- We wish everyone a happy and joyous holiday season! -Sonic

Network connections for nas21 and nas22 have…

Friday, December 4th, 1998

Fri Dec 4 13:45:14 PST 1998 -- Network connections for nas21 and nas22 have been moved. We also utilized the opportunity to upgrade nas21's power system so that its capacity may be agumented, as well as giving it a much-needed firmware upgrade. Multilink PPP across chassis (MPIP) seems to ...

Some folks have noticed a difference in…

Thursday, December 3rd, 1998

Thu Dec 3 13:01:46 PST 1998 -- Some folks have noticed a difference in performance between dialup connections on nas21 and nas22. After some investigation (including some special monitoring by Devin and Ian -- thanks guys), we have identified a congestion situation in our switched infrastructure, as well as ...