Archive for March, 2000
Tuesday, March 28th, 2000
Tue Mar 28 16:25:38 PST 2000 -- We got two major upgrades done today. First, we slid a brand new SQL server under our old SQL server. The new box has a whole lot more power than the old one, and you may notice the member tools speed up ...
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Saturday, March 25th, 2000
Sat Mar 25 17:18:51 PST 2000 -- After extensive testing, our new dynamic apache configuration is online. The system was tested by running it on port 81 for all multihomes -- feedback was gathered in news:sonic.help.www. We also tested SSI and Frontpage after the switch, found some problems, and ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2000
Wed Mar 22 12:54:58 PST 2000 -- As a side effect of reloading the router this morning, some of our remote dial-up POP's saw spotty connectivity to pop.sonic.net and mail.sonic.net. This caused intermittent delays in mail retrieval for customers using these POP's. We've resolved the issue, and apologize once ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2000
Wed Mar 22 10:19:25 PST 2000 -- We've noticed some packet loss at our gateway to UUNet, and this correleates with some unusual behavior we've noticed in our core router. Despite the 5 minute downtime, we elected to reboot the router. We will continue to monitor the situation, and ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2000
Wed Mar 22 17:08:56 PST 2000 -- More action in our web server configurations. Some changes are coming down the pipe for multihomes, including different ErrorDocument handling. Please visit news:sonic.help.www (thread: 'New server configuration') for details. -Scott
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Tuesday, March 21st, 2000
Tue Mar 21 11:52:58 PST 2000 -- Due to repeated request from our customers to keep their mail boxes free from SPAM we have implemented four new anti-spam filters in our mail servers: RBL, RSS, DUL and mail-abuse.org's Relay list. In the first hour since these rules have been ...
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Monday, March 20th, 2000
Mon Mar 20 18:54:40 PST 2000 -- Some web sites reported problems with CGI today, which appears to be related to the number of virtual hosts on Thunder. As an interim fix, we've moved 250 virtual hosts to Storm. Additionally, we are experimenting with a new web server configuration ...
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Wednesday, March 15th, 2000
Wed Mar 15 08:59:44 PST 2000 -- Our Network Appliance NFS disk array ran out of space this morning, and we had to do some quick management to clear up room. It's got a live backup feature that's taking up quite a bit of disk space, so we've dialed ...
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2000
Tue Mar 14 20:40:13 PST 2000 -- SSI problems. Some sites are reporting problems with server-side-includes (SSI), which we have been investigating all day. An upgrade to Apache 1.3.12 only made the problem worse. We're continuing to investigate the problem, and have logged a bug report with apache.org. -Scott ...
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Sunday, March 12th, 2000
Sun Mar 12 18:57:59 PST 2000 -- We had news.sonic.net (Typhoon) on our 12-port 100MB switch. Unfortunately, the traffic bound for Typhoon saturated the 100MB link to our gigaswitch, causing instability in our switch fabric. We've moved Typhoon to our core Black Diamond switch, and rebooted all our switches, ...
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