Archive for February, 2001
Wednesday, February 28th, 2001
Wed Feb 28 11:54:52 PST 2001 -- Sonic.net is growing quickly, taking on many new customers from Metro.net and CableOne.net's shutdown. Metro.net's closure was covered in today's Press Democrat, the story is at: www.pressdemocrat.com/business/news/28metronet_e1.html
We have one correction to the article - Sonic.net was not founded at the ...
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Tuesday, February 27th, 2001
Tue Feb 27 10:06:04 PST 2001 -- Denial of service attacks: In the past 24 hours we have been the target of two brief DOS attacks. Both attacks flooded our inbound links and maxed out the CPUs in both of the active core routers. While the attacks were in ...
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Saturday, February 24th, 2001
Sat Feb 24 10:42:49 PST 2001 -- 707-522-1003 was having problems with authentication this morning, resulting in a 'Host unreachable' error when trying to connect. We needed to do an emergency reboot of the gear on that dialup pool. This caused some people to get disconnected. After the reboot ...
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Friday, February 23rd, 2001
Fri Feb 23 11:28:22 PST 2001 -- We are experiencing capacity issues on our Sebastopol dialup pool. We have ordered additional capacity for this area and it will be available shortly. Meanwhile if you experience busy signals you may want to search our pop finder for a alternate dialup ...
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2001
Thu Feb 22 11:34:31 PST 2001 -- PacBell is continuing to have ongoing problems with their DSLAMS. Right now the DSLAM in Petaluma is offline. This is affecting about 125 customers. We've seen roaming outages on DSLAMS in different areas over the past few days. In all cases they've ...
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Thursday, February 22nd, 2001
Thu Feb 22 14:07:56 PST 2001 -- Yesterday we had problems with a disk filling on our primary outbound email spooling server. Some outbound email was delayed by as much as six hours due to problems in our notification system. We've repaired the notification tools so that we'll avoid ...
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Wednesday, February 21st, 2001
Wed Feb 21 17:26:09 PST 2001 -- We're seeing an increase in the amount of SPAM being blocked and also being delivered to Sonic.net customers. We are doing many things here to block as much SPAM as we can. We'll continue to develop additional methods of blocking in an ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2001
Tue Feb 20 11:06:47 PST 2001 -- Congestion avoidance. A colo site had incorrect permissions on some of their directories, which prompted scurrilous ruffians to upload DIVX files for illicit distribution. The resulting demand caused saturation on our T3's, with as much as 3% packet loss on our Internet ...
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Tuesday, February 20th, 2001
Tue Feb 20 13:39:26 PST 2001 -- Emergency admin server downtime. We had to reboot our core administrative server. This could have resulted in slow DNS response while the server was down but should not have affected other normal Internet usage. Membertools were also unavailable while the host was ...
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Friday, February 16th, 2001
Fri Feb 16 02:27:58 PST 2001 -- Night Operations: We completed all of the security updates and network maintenance. No significant downtime was incurred. -Kelsey, Scott, Chuck and Matt.
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