Archive for August, 1999

The migration of our PacBell DSL customers to

Tuesday, August 31st, 1999

Tue Aug 31 23:56:04 PDT 1999 -- The migration of our PacBell DSL customers to our huge new T3 circuit went well. Downtime for 95% of the customers was 30 minutes, and the other 5% took about 15 more minutes to get configured and online. The new T3 offers ...

Our final testing of the new DSL ATM T3 is…

Tuesday, August 31st, 1999

Tue Aug 31 16:43:44 PDT 1999 -- Our final testing of the new DSL ATM T3 is complete, and it's doing really well in our test setup. We will be making the transition to this circuit tonight at 11pm. Expected downtime is 30 minutes. Once complete, DSL customers will ...

We contacted USR today regarding disconnect…

Monday, August 30th, 1999

Mon Aug 30 16:15:43 PDT 1999 -- We contacted USR today regarding disconnect issues with the 522-1003 dialup pool. They took a look at our gear and made some suggestions. We have made a config change on that gear which should help stop the disconnects. If you continue to ...

This afternoon, I had our core router in…

Friday, August 27th, 1999

Fri Aug 27 17:45:32 PDT 1999 -- This afternoon, I had our core router in debug mode (watching BGP updates) and for some reason it caused the Cisco to crash. This was entirely operator error (mine) and I had to reboot the Cisco. Total downtime was 6 minutes, and ...

The shell server just had the same problem as

Thursday, August 26th, 1999

Thu Aug 26 12:36:55 PDT 1999 -- The shell server just had the same problem as the web server. We suspect someone is developing a nasty cgi that is consuming resources...we have increased the resources available on Bolt, the shell server, which should help prevent a future reoccurance. -Dane, ...

Mail server upgrades.

Thursday, August 26th, 1999

Thu Aug 26 14:55:42 PDT 1999 -- Mail server upgrades. We have shifted mail traffic to a new mail server, Prop.sonic.net. Prop is a clone of Sub, the old mail server, which means it is _not_ running qmail. We are monitoring the new host, and expect this transition to ...

The web server that serves our multihomes…

Tuesday, August 24th, 1999

Tue Aug 24 09:53:30 PDT 1999 -- The web server that serves our multihomes (Thunder) required another reboot this morning. The error message was 'No free inodes - Contact Linus', which I will not undertake until we've checked some other things first. Downtime was about 8 minutes, and we ...

After recieving complaints that some people…

Tuesday, August 24th, 1999

Tue Aug 24 09:02:10 PDT 1999 -- After recieving complaints that some people could not see web sites beyond sonic.net, I did some investigation and found one of our terminal servers had lost its default route. I added it back in and all is well. We apologize for any ...

After much fuss with PacBell, we’ve got the…

Monday, August 23rd, 1999

Mon Aug 23 21:56:29 PDT 1999 -- After much fuss with PacBell, we've got the downed PRI circuits back online. A correction on the previous MOTD - this trouble took offline 25% of the capacity in just one hunt group, the 1003 group. This is just 184 phone lines, ...

We’ve moved back to a two server mail config…

Monday, August 23rd, 1999

Mon Aug 23 21:50:23 PDT 1999 -- We've moved back to a two server mail config to address performance issues. We'll post more info here when we've got it. -Dane