Archive for May, 2001

We’ve had a security incident affecting…

Wednesday, May 30th, 2001

Wed May 30 15:31:08 PDT 2001 -- We've had a security incident affecting bolt.sonic.net, our unix shell server. No other servers or services appear to be affected. We're aware of 126 remote user account logins and passwords were captured during the break-in, but all recent unix shell users should ...

We have put up new web-enabled versions of…

Wednesday, May 30th, 2001

Wed May 30 13:33:13 PDT 2001 -- We have put up new web-enabled versions of ping, traceroute and mtr at stats.sonic.net/cgi-bin/icmp.cgi We've also replaced the respective binaries on bolt with scripts that gateway your queries to the web enabled tools to provide basic icmp troubleshooting from the shell server. ...

We just had to reboot one of the three USR TC

Tuesday, May 29th, 2001

Tue May 29 12:06:25 PDT 2001 -- We just had to reboot one of the three USR TC hubs that handles the 522-1003 dial-up group. One of it's line cards had been generating repeated errors interfering with the ability for users to successfully connect. Reseting the single card did ...

The ATM network appears to have returned to…

Friday, May 25th, 2001

Fri May 25 11:40:58 PDT 2001 -- The ATM network appears to have returned to normal. Customers started coming back online gradually between 10:15 and 11:30, and we have no outstanding problems at this time. - Support Update - new trouble has affected the PVCs serving BroadLink's customers. ...

Pacific Bell’s ATM network is experiencing…

Friday, May 25th, 2001

Fri May 25 09:50:40 PDT 2001 -- Pacific Bell's ATM network is experiencing serious problems right now, specifically in the LATA that covers North Western California. This affects Pacific Bell ADSL customers, and FRATM T1 customers. Pacific Bell has not given us an estimated time of repair, but they ...

Bolt upgrade.

Friday, May 25th, 2001

Fri May 25 16:23:45 PDT 2001 -- Bolt upgrade. Our shell server, Bolt.sonic.net, is running a new kernel. We have also upgraded several servers on our network with the same kernel. Ping, traceroute, ssh, mtr, and screen are all back in service on Bolt. More details regarding the importance ...

Pacific Bell’s statewide ATM network is still

Friday, May 25th, 2001

Fri May 25 15:24:20 PDT 2001 -- Pacific Bell's statewide ATM network is still having some very significant problems. Our own statistics show that about 25% of our PacBell connected DSL customers are currently offline. Here's the statement from PacBell, including the timeline for repairs. We've ...

Pacific Bell’s ATM network problems caused…

Friday, May 25th, 2001

Fri May 25 13:23:26 PDT 2001 -- Pacific Bell's ATM network problems caused all BroadLink customers to go offline. While Pacific Bell works to repair their issues, we've reconfigured for a physical cross connection from BroadLink's cabinet colocated in our data center over to a spare interface on our ...

We’ve made some software changes on the shell

Thursday, May 24th, 2001

Thu May 24 22:33:36 PDT 2001 -- We've made some software changes on the shell server which have broken a few utilities temporarily. The items which are currently unavailable include ping, traceroute, ssh and screen. Sorry for the inconvenience, we will work to get these back online ...

We will be performing maintenance on the 1003

Thursday, May 24th, 2001

Thu May 24 20:55:43 PDT 2001 -- We will be performing maintenance on the 1003 dialup group this evening starting at 11:30pm. Some users who are connected to the 1003 dialup number may be disconnected. The window for this work is between 11:30pm and 12:30am. This maintenance includes moving ...