Archive for February, 2000

After some more issues, we’re now running the

Sunday, February 27th, 2000

Sun Feb 27 02:36:35 PST 2000 -- After some more issues, we're now running the current general deployment of IOS on our core Cisco router. It's still got one annoying issue which Cisco is working on for us now. We'll need to do another upgrade when they have that ...

The new OS version for our Cisco core router…

Friday, February 25th, 2000

Fri Feb 25 01:43:46 PST 2000 -- The new OS version for our Cisco core router did not perform well, and we had to go back to the older release. The 100Mbps Ethernet interface was massively impacted under the new release, and the system was basicly unreachable. We spoke ...

We will be upgrading our core Cisco router to

Thursday, February 24th, 2000

Thu Feb 24 17:41:57 PST 2000 -- We will be upgrading our core Cisco router to a new version of it's operating system tonight between midnight and 1am. We expect downtime of about three minutes while it reloads, and during this time, Internet access will not be available. The ...

The MOTD Archiver is back online.

Thursday, February 24th, 2000

Thu Feb 24 17:35:34 PST 2000 -- The MOTD Archiver is back online. We have a complete record of every MOTD entry dating back as far back as Thu Jan 16 10:13:25 PST 1997. You can view the MOTD archive at www.sonic.net/info/motd-archive/ - Steve

The flash upgrade of the XXX-1003 and…

Thursday, February 24th, 2000

Thu Feb 24 03:58:00 PST 2000 -- The flash upgrade of the XXX-1003 and XXX-9811 dialup groups has been completed successfully. This new version of the Total-Control firmware will increase reliability on both dialup groups. Let us know ASAP if you experience an increase in connectivity issues on either ...

Thursday at 1:00am I will be flash upgrading…

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2000

Wed Feb 23 11:49:37 PST 2000 -- Thursday at 1:00am I will be flash upgrading the Total-Control dialup gear to the latest firmware. After testing this version of the firmware we have decided it is stable enough for our production machines. During this flash upgrade it may require that ...

While having broke the entire network with…

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2000

Wed Feb 23 18:16:05 PST 2000 -- While having broke the entire network with with a few quick keystrokes, Eli and I did manage to accomplish some good. Some of you may have noticed the slight 3 to 5 percent packet loss over PacBell dsl links. We discovered that ...

A configuration snafu on our core switch…

Wednesday, February 23rd, 2000

Wed Feb 23 17:39:40 PST 2000 -- A configuration snafu on our core switch knocked fridge, our NetApp file-server, off of the net for 3 minutes. All web, ftp, and email is stored on this server and was briefly unavailable. - Kelsey

We had to perform unexpected maintenance on…

Friday, February 18th, 2000

Fri Feb 18 16:34:25 PST 2000 -- We had to perform unexpected maintenance on prog-relay.sonic.net today. It bounced email with 'user unknown' errors while it was off-line. This only would have affected a small number of customers. - Kelsey and Eli

One of our pop3 servers had problems…

Friday, February 18th, 2000

Fri Feb 18 14:55:16 PST 2000 -- One of our pop3 servers had problems authenticating users, I restarted the authentication service and all seems to be fine. This would have caused about 10 minutes of 'Invalid Password' messages while checking mail. - Steve