Archive for March, 2001
Friday, March 30th, 2001
Fri Mar 30 22:07:02 PST 2001 -- The Redback router we use to serve Pacific Bell ADSL and Broadlink WDSL customers had to be rebooted this evening, as it seemed to be behaving inconsistently. As it turned out, the RedBack was not at fault. Total downtime for customers was ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2001
Thu Mar 29 12:12:51 PST 2001 -- CW and UUNet T3's. In addition to our recent increase in bandwidth on our UUNet T3, we have increased our available bandwidth on our Cable & Wireless T3. We ordered these increases to meet customer demand for more bandwidth; additionally, Usenet feeds ...
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Thursday, March 29th, 2001
Thu Mar 29 11:48:56 PST 2001 -- Mistral upgraded. Yesterday, we upgraded one web server in our cluster to a dual PIII-750 with half a Gigabyte of RAM. Mistral used to be a single PIII-550 with a quarter Gigabyte of RAM. (Thanks Kelsey.) Our web server cluster serves over ...
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Wednesday, March 28th, 2001
Wed Mar 28 10:02:42 PST 2001 -- bolt.sonic.net net, our linux shell server stopped talking to our mail server lastnight. This resulted in some e-mail being delayed that was sent via the shell. This did not affect dialup users e-mail, only e-mail that was sent via bolt. -Steve, Nathan ...
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Thursday, March 22nd, 2001
Thu Mar 22 21:51:58 PST 2001 -- Ape, or core Extreme Networks Switch, failed tonight at 20:26:47. It's snmpd process got stuck in a software loop and maxed out the management modules' CPU and routing engine. We rebooted the switch just after 21:00 which cleared up the problem and ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2001
Tue Mar 20 14:40:30 PST 2001 -- Last night one PRI in the 9811 dialup group went down due to an OC3 circuit failure at Focal Communications. Focal was able to work with Pacific Bell and Sprint to get the PRI back online by 8:00pm. This may have caused ...
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Tuesday, March 20th, 2001
Tue Mar 20 14:25:06 PST 2001 -- PG&E rolling outages. Sonic.net's facility has been reclassified into a zone eligible for rolling blackouts. While we were previously in a "50" zone, we've been moved into zone 2 as part of PG&E's efforts to address their energy shortfalls. In response to ...
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Friday, March 16th, 2001
Fri Mar 16 16:56:35 PST 2001 -- Unexpected Network Outage. We have been working with Extreme Networks to troubleshoot and identify some problems that we've had with VLANs in their switches not behaving as expected under certain circumstances. We were gathering a packet dump to help their engineers resolve ...
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Friday, March 16th, 2001
Fri Mar 16 16:12:25 PST 2001 -- DSLAM1 in Santa Rosa has had intermittent issues over the last few days, but has been operational for the most part. This afternoon, we've noticed more significant problems, and we will be working with Pacific Bell's Repair to determine when the DSLAM ...
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Monday, March 12th, 2001
Mon Mar 12 17:55:55 PST 2001 -- DSLAM 1 in the main Santa Rosa CO is down. This DSLAM serves approximately 200 of our ADSL customers in Santa Rosa. PacBell (ASI) has not provided us with an ETR. Don't forget that you may still dial up using a modem ...
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