Archive for December, 1999

The free DSL equipment, setup, book and…

Friday, December 31st, 1999

Fri Dec 31 10:03:55 PST 1999 -- The free DSL equipment, setup, book and installation offer has been extended through midnight tonight. Today is the final day to order DSL and get free equipment and a free book. Installation and on-site setup is also free, so if you've been ...

Sonic.net will be closed on Saturday January…

Thursday, December 30th, 1999

Thu Dec 30 08:57:54 PST 1999 -- Sonic.net will be closed on Saturday January 1st for New Years day. Technical support will be available on Sunday morning at 9am. If you have very urgent issues, email support@sonic.net and staff will be monitoring this email queue. We don't anticipate any ...

Today is the final day to order DSL and get…

Thursday, December 30th, 1999

Thu Dec 30 08:54:55 PST 1999 -- Today is the final day to order DSL and get free equipment and a free book. Installation and on-site setup is also free, so if you've been considering DSL, today is the day to order! Save $198 on the equipment, get a ...

About 20 minutes ago, our network came under…

Thursday, December 23rd, 1999

Thu Dec 23 19:31:45 PST 1999 -- About 20 minutes ago, our network came under a 'denial of service' attack. This disrupted local and Internet traffic for about 15 minutes, we have isolated the source and are filing security reports with the networks in question now. - Eli, Steve, ...

News.sonic.net was unavailable for about 15…

Thursday, December 23rd, 1999

Thu Dec 23 17:36:12 PST 1999 -- News.sonic.net was unavailable for about 15 minutes this afternoon, it required a long reboot and filesystems check, and is back online now. - Eli, Scott

Storm, our web server that hosts…

Wednesday, December 22nd, 1999

Wed Dec 22 09:36:56 PST 1999 -- Storm, our web server that hosts www.sonic.net and a few other multihomed domains had a kernel panic this morning. It required a system reboot and may have made the sonic.net web page unaccessible for a few minutes. - Steve, Kelsey and crew ...

Sonic.net will be closed Friday December 24th

Wednesday, December 22nd, 1999

Wed Dec 22 17:18:46 PST 1999 -- Sonic.net will be closed Friday December 24th and Saturday December 25th for the holidays. Have a great holiday weekend! Support will re-open on Sunday, and our main office will be open on Monday. -Dane

As part of our ongoing effort to speed up the

Thursday, December 16th, 1999

Thu Dec 16 18:08:53 PST 1999 -- As part of our ongoing effort to speed up the delivery of mail, we have made a processor upgrade and doubled the amount of RAM in Prop.sonic.net, which is one of the six servers we use to process inbound mail. We're seeing ...

Due to a problem with an e-mail server that…

Wednesday, December 15th, 1999

Wed Dec 15 14:19:36 PST 1999 -- Due to a problem with an e-mail server that we are still investigating, it appears that we may have lost or deferred some percentage of the email that was received here on Tuesday and early Wednesday morning. Internet e-mail transport is ...

The mail server handling outbound email for…

Tuesday, December 14th, 1999

Tue Dec 14 08:36:11 PST 1999 -- The mail server handling outbound email for most customers had a number of problems overnight, and I've made some changes to fix this trouble. It was having some problems restarting sendmail during a scheduled reload, leaving the system without a mailer deamon ...