Archive for October, 1999
Friday, October 29th, 1999
Fri Oct 29 12:19:10 PDT 1999 -- We're renumbering the active file on Ultra, aka news.sonic.net, and this means that posts you make right now will be delayed, and will show up in a little while. Additionally, the article counts which you see before you enter the group may ...
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Wednesday, October 27th, 1999
Wed Oct 27 12:14:18 PDT 1999 -- Focal just turned up more capacity on the ###-9811 lines. This should alleviate busy signals on the 9811 dialup pool. To find a local focal number you can use our pop finder tool at www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/pops.pl -Steve
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Monday, October 25th, 1999
Mon Oct 25 12:35:56 PDT 1999 -- We will be moving our Covad DSL circuit to a new switch tonight. This will happen at around midnight and will cause a short period of downtown for Covad DSL customers. Also at this time we will be adding more memory to ...
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Sunday, October 24th, 1999
Sun Oct 24 15:36:07 PDT 1999 -- Slow Usenet and mail server performance. Ultra has been having trouble accepting new posts intermittantly since Thursday. I've just restarted innd, and it's performing well now. We've got a new news server on it's way, so we'll limp along for another week ...
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Wednesday, October 20th, 1999
Wed Oct 20 23:18:04 PDT 1999 -- Tonight a bit past midnight we'll be replacing the makeshift fuse assembly in the the RedBack DSL router with the new fuse they delivered today. Downtime will be under five minutes. -Dane
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Wednesday, October 20th, 1999
Wed Oct 20 02:57:29 PDT 1999 -- The trouble with the RedBack DSL router was found to be a blown fuse which serves the packet forwarding engine slot.
The 5 amp fuse had blown, and RedBack support reported that they had found that a 7.5 amp fuse ...
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Tuesday, October 19th, 1999
Tue Oct 19 23:37:00 PDT 1999 -- The RedBack appears to have a failed packet forwarding engine. The FE is one of the two main CPU cards - the control engine and the forwarding engine work together as the core of the SMS500. I'm awaiting a call back from ...
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Tuesday, October 19th, 1999
Tue Oct 19 22:56:34 PDT 1999 -- The DSL gateway router that serves our PacBell DSL customers has gone off the network. It's still on, and reachable via serial, but it's Internetworking is down. I'm on my way to the office to reboot it now. It should be online ...
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Monday, October 18th, 1999
Mon Oct 18 10:31:53 PDT 1999 -- We are upgrading the OS in our RedBack DSL router right now to a new version. PacBell DSL customers may notice a 30 second pause in Internet connectivity while the machine reboots. This new release may address issues where some customers are ...
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Monday, October 18th, 1999
Mon Oct 18 14:51:36 PDT 1999 -- SBC/PacBell has announced a major $6 billion broadband initiative. This will mean much greater availability of ADSL service for customers who are further from central offices and who are in cities which are not currently being served with DSL. We're very excited ...
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