Archive for January, 2000

One of our mail servers, ultra.sonic.net had…

Monday, January 17th, 2000

Mon Jan 17 11:22:08 PST 2000 -- One of our mail servers, ultra.sonic.net had problems this AM, but it was backed up by two other systems, so there was no interruption or delay in email services. -Dane and Kelsey

We upgraded our skycache satellite downlink…

Thursday, January 13th, 2000

Thu Jan 13 15:22:51 PST 2000 -- We upgraded our skycache satellite downlink from 3Mbit/s to 10Mbit/s today. Our news server and akamai servers are fed through this feed and should perform better as a result. -- Kelsey and Eli.

We had to reboot our core router mega this…

Thursday, January 13th, 2000

Thu Jan 13 15:01:45 PST 2000 -- We had to reboot our core router mega this afternoon. This accounted for about 5 minutes of downtime. We encountered a bug in the IOS software while trying to shape our network traffic load. Eli and Scott are currently working with Cisco ...

Some serious issues at our UUNet upstream…

Sunday, January 9th, 2000

Sun Jan 9 23:24:11 PST 2000 -- Some serious issues at our UUNet upstream router has caused some intermittent connectivity problems - UUNet engineers and Sonic's staff are working to resolve this, it appears that the core UUNet router at San Jose experienced a failure, and has been repaired. ...

On Friday the 14th of Jan we will be removing

Friday, January 7th, 2000

Fri Jan 7 11:51:51 PST 2000 -- On Friday the 14th of Jan we will be removing all traces of statbot from our web servers. If you wish to keep the old stats you should copy the /stats directories from your multihomed website into another directory. Once the stats ...

Ultra, one of our mail servers, had a problem

Thursday, January 6th, 2000

Thu Jan 6 17:43:43 PST 2000 -- Ultra, one of our mail servers, had a problem authenticating users. This caused some mail to bounce. We caught the the problem quickly and re-started the server. This caused very little impact. -Steve

It’s the first weekday after Y2K, and we’ve…

Monday, January 3rd, 2000

Mon Jan 3 19:45:07 PST 2000 -- It's the first weekday after Y2K, and we've seen a number of minor cosmetic issues here and elsewhere on the Internet. Typical ones include dates displayed as year '100, or as 19100. Here at Sonic.net, we've replaced the shell news reader ...

Happy New Year everyone! Note the date/time…

Saturday, January 1st, 2000

Sat Jan 1 00:08:19 PST 2000 -- Happy New Year everyone! Note the date/time stamp on this entry, ^^^^ =) -Dane & Dave