Archive for November, 1999
Tuesday, November 30th, 1999
Tue Nov 30 12:00:51 PST 1999 -- In the ongoing troubleshooting of the latency on our primary T3, PacBell and UUNet have found a buffer setting on the UUNet end of the circuit which needed to be increased. As we've been experiencing less than ideal performance for some time, ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 1999
Tue Nov 30 08:40:39 PST 1999 -- We will be performing maintenance on a number of systems on Friday night, beginning at midnight. A number of machines are being upgraded, but most user services will be unaffected. However, serving of websites will be interrupted briefly as we upgrade these ...
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Tuesday, November 30th, 1999
Tue Nov 30 08:38:11 PST 1999 -- The mail server that handles inbound email for 'sonic.net' had some troubles overnight, and stopped accepting messages at 21:57 last night. I'm still trying to isolate the cause of the stoppage; all of the services were running fine, and there was no ...
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Monday, November 29th, 1999
Mon Nov 29 17:51:23 PST 1999 -- In our continuing effort to provide the best Internet service possible and to make way for the new load balanced web servers we are making some changes to the way our web servers handle log files. Starting Dec first we are replacing ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 1999
Wed Nov 24 18:23:35 PST 1999 -- I will be upgrading memory in thunder.sonic.net tonight to half a gigabyte. This will further improve performance for many multihomed websites. We are working now on deployment of a number of improvements for multihomed hosted sites including a really nice new stats ...
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Wednesday, November 24th, 1999
Wed Nov 24 18:19:17 PST 1999 -- We are again seeing latency problems on our primary T3 circuit, and we're working with PacBell and UUNet to isolate the trouble. PacBell will be testing the circuit tonight at 2am to see if they can find any problems, so we expect ...
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 1999
Tue Nov 23 08:31:04 PST 1999 -- At 3am last night, PacBell replaced the interface card which serves our UUNet T3 connection. This appears to have eliminated the latency troubles we've been seeing in the past few weeks. I'm currently seeing 17ms average latency over this circuit. We were ...
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 1999
Tue Nov 23 08:28:00 PST 1999 -- Note that when you connect to the new news server the first time, you will probably be offered a few thousand new groups. Using most shell based newsreaders, you'll be asked if you want to join each one, with a yY/nN option. ...
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Monday, November 22nd, 1999
Mon Nov 22 17:24:25 PST 1999 -- We are swinging the CNAME for news.sonic.net from ultra.sonic.net over to our new server, typhoon.sonic.net. This huge new Usenet server blows the doors off old ultra with half a gig of ram and over 110 gigs of disk space. Typhoon is currently ...
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Friday, November 19th, 1999
Fri Nov 19 16:24:08 PST 1999 -- Sonic.net will be closed on Thursday the 25th of November for the Thanksgiving holiday. Technical support will be available 8am to 9pm on Friday, and 9am to 9pm during the weekend, but our sales and accounting offices will be closed Thursday through ...
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