Archive for April, 1999
Friday, April 30th, 1999
Fri Apr 30 11:27:00 PDT 1999 -- Some folks have noticed problems with cgi's on multihomed web sites. This appears to be a resource issue (specifically, file descriptors). We are currently optimizing Apache on Thunder to use less of those resources, which should be completed before 2pm. -Scott
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Friday, April 30th, 1999
Fri Apr 30 10:36:10 PDT 1999 -- Apparently, the recent news server OS upgrade has had a strange side effect: every morning around 4:30am, the server exits. We will wrap the server with a 'service loop' to prevent this from happening in the future, and then investigate the cause ...
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Friday, April 30th, 1999
Fri Apr 30 01:41:26 PDT 1999 -- Today is the last day to take advantage of our $9.95 domain registration special, so act now if you'd like to get your own domain for your business or personal use. To register, use the tools at www.sonic.net/tools/. Pricing will go to ...
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Thursday, April 29th, 1999
Thu Apr 29 12:41:50 PDT 1999 -- We've had a quite few server issues that have affected customers in the past 24 hours. Here's an overview:
Storm.sonic.net, aka www.sonic.net crashed with a kernel panic last night around 9pm last night. Dustin was on the premises and rebooted it, ...
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Wednesday, April 28th, 1999
Wed Apr 28 12:11:38 PDT 1999 -- Sonic.net is now offering free outgoing FAX service to Santa Rosa and surrounding areas including Sebastopol, Rohnert Park, Windsor, Forestville and parts of Petaluma. If you'd like to send a FAX, visit our FAX page at www.sonic.net/fax/ for information.
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Wednesday, April 28th, 1999
Wed Apr 28 12:09:55 PDT 1999 -- Our multihome web server ran short on file descriptors last night at around 12:30am. We made some changes and did a couple reboots to try different kernels, so multihomed sites had a couple brief outages between 12:30am and 1:30am last night. -Dane ...
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Monday, April 26th, 1999
Mon Apr 26 04:00:00 PDT 1999 -- We've upgraded our news server, Ultra. The upgrade includes a new driver for the DPT RAID hard drive controller, SMP support (dual processors), and improved networking. -Scott
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Sunday, April 25th, 1999
Sun Apr 25 15:25:14 PDT 1999 -- Above.net, our co-location provider for the xxx-xxx-3610 numbers, is in the midst of a network outage. Thankfully, we have alternate numbers for that area, which can be located at www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/pops.pl, or by calling Support at 707-547-3400. Above.net has no ETR, so the ...
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Saturday, April 24th, 1999
Sat Apr 24 12:51:21 PDT 1999 -- PacWest, the phone company serving the xxx-0174 numbers will be doing a switch upgrade cutover on Sunday morning at 2:40AM. They expect downtime from 15-90 minutes for these numbers. For all customers served by these lines, we've got alternative numbers available, so ...
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Saturday, April 24th, 1999
Sat Apr 24 22:47:28 PDT 1999 -- Our news server disk drive filled this morning, and the monitoring software which is supposed to tell us had been halted and not restarted recently. I've cleared the disk space, and news is flowing in fast right now, but it'll take a ...
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