Archive for May, 2000

Thunder.sonic.net, our primary web server,…

Tuesday, May 30th, 2000

Tue May 30 14:05:27 PDT 2000 -- Thunder.sonic.net, our primary web server, detected an OS error and restarted a few minutes ago. Downtime was approximately three minutes. -Scott

UUNet Security has finished their…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2000

Wed May 24 21:06:34 PDT 2000 -- UUNet Security has finished their investigation, and our Shell Server is back to normal operation. The investigation took a lot of time/resources on UUNet's part, but it paid off- UUNet has logs that will be essential to Law Enforcement, and we'll be ...

The denial of service attack has been…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2000

Wed May 24 16:08:40 PDT 2000 -- The denial of service attack has been filtered at the gateway, so the network is back to normal. However, while UUNet Security traces the source of the attack, the Shell Server (if you don't know what this is it does not affect ...

We are currently under a denial of service…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2000

Wed May 24 15:34:55 PDT 2000 -- We are currently under a denial of service attack and are in contact with our upstream providers to resolve the issues. The attack has forced us to reload our core router and we hope service restore as soon as possible. - Scott, ...

Our T3 circuit to UUNet ‘flapped’ briefly a…

Wednesday, May 24th, 2000

Wed May 24 15:17:37 PDT 2000 -- Our T3 circuit to UUNet 'flapped' briefly a few minutes ago, causing routing problems and partial unreachability to the Internet for a few minutes. The circuit is up and functional now, we will continue to monitor status and advise. - Eli

The pine fix only appears to work for the…

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2000

Tue May 23 12:51:45 PDT 2000 -- The pine fix only appears to work for the root user and not everyone else, so we'll continue to work on this until its resolved. Its clearly generated only when you run pine, so most sonic.net users need not worry about the ...

The new shell email program PINE has been…

Monday, May 22nd, 2000

Mon May 22 11:20:49 PDT 2000 -- The new shell email program PINE has been fixed to stop writing 'Internal Folder Data' messages to your email box every time you run the program. We offer thanks to the user Steve for locating this fix faster then our capable staff. ...

Some people had problems receiving e-mail…

Thursday, May 18th, 2000

Thu May 18 08:43:22 PDT 2000 -- Some people had problems receiving e-mail this morning. Our mail spool was full. I cleared out some old mail and things are looking good as of now. No mail was lost during this time. - Steve

Pacific Bell is running behind on equipment…

Thursday, May 18th, 2000

Thu May 18 20:15:24 PDT 2000 -- Pacific Bell is running behind on equipment deployment to serve DSL customers in some cities, and installation is taking longer than usual while they build out new equipment in the central offices. Affected cities include Petaluma, Santa Rosa, parts of San Francisco, ...

Our new Network Appliance filer has arrived,…

Thursday, May 18th, 2000

Thu May 18 20:04:13 PDT 2000 -- Our new Network Appliance filer has arrived, and we're preparing for migration of the majority of our customer data to this unit. The Netapp filer hosts all user web data, most email and ftp space. The new filer will also be hosting ...