Archive for July, 2001
Monday, July 30th, 2001
Mon Jul 30 12:49:44 PDT 2001 -- More Code Red work. We'll be running more scans on our networks, and also implementing some firewalling on the dial-up equipment (Not DSL or Dedicated networks) on port 80. - Eli, Kelsey, Steve, ScottR
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Saturday, July 28th, 2001
Sat Jul 28 15:29:21 PDT 2001 -- The SMS crashed again at 12:27PM today. It reloaded properly on the older, more stable code. The code that it is currently running does have some known issues but they are far less significant than the issues that we are having with ...
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Saturday, July 28th, 2001
Sat Jul 28 01:05:55 PDT 2001 -- The SMS crashed again, twice, in rapid succession. It didn't boot up on the old code as I had hoped, but I've confirmed that it will in the event that it reloads itself again. -Kelsey
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Friday, July 27th, 2001
Fri Jul 27 16:24:53 PDT 2001 -- We had an unexpected crash on our RedBack router. This caused some connectivity problems for DSL and Broadlink WDSL customers. We are investigating into why this has happened. -Eli, Matt, Dave, Kelsey, Steve and Russ UPDATE: RedBack reports that this is a ...
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Friday, July 27th, 2001
Fri Jul 27 15:08:16 PDT 2001 -- New SPAM Filter: We implemented a new SPAM countermeasure which may result in 30% reduction in inbound SPAM. For more information about this new filter and how to enable it for your email account, please see my post in news:sonic.general entitled 'new ...
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Thursday, July 26th, 2001
Thu Jul 26 08:25:55 PDT 2001 -- Happy birthday to Sonic.net! Domain Name: SONIC.NET Record created on 26-Jul-1994.
As we begin our eighth year, I'd like to thank our customers and our staff for their ongoing support and contributions. We're now serving about 20,000 users, and have 45 ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2001
Wed Jul 25 20:26:43 PDT 2001 -- Another unexpected Redback Router crash, which affected PacBell ADSL and Broadlink WDSL customers between 8:09pm and 8:20pm. This appears to be the same 'crash' that affected us on Jul. 10th, that being a known bug in Redback's current 'General Deployment' release of ...
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Wednesday, July 25th, 2001
Wed Jul 25 16:04:30 PDT 2001 -- Code Red audit - Yesterday afternoon, Sonic.net pro-actively audited our co-located customers' networks, and our DSL-connected networks. The software connected to customer machines on port 80, and retrieved the Web Server software version they were running. We discovered 25 servers that were ...
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Monday, July 23rd, 2001
Mon Jul 23 11:12:02 PDT 2001 -- "SirCam" Virus outbreak. Yet another nasty virus is in the wild that spreads itself via MS Outlook & Outlook Express. The virus may do a number of very bad things to an infected system, including emailing random documents to every one in ...
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Thursday, July 19th, 2001
Thu Jul 19 17:30:29 PDT 2001 -- "Code Red" worm foiled. The "Code Red" worm was supposed to flood www.whitehouse.gov at 5pm PDT. Sonic.net staff was standing by waiting for any sign of trouble -- and encountered a non-event. It turns out that, to foil the worm, www.whitehouse.gov's IP ...
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