Archive for September, 2001
Sunday, September 30th, 2001
Sun Sep 30 20:54:23 PDT 2001 -- New .info domains should be available at 9:00 PM tonight. We're offering two years free domain registration when you purchase multihomed hosting. For details, see:
sonic.sonic.net/members/domain_tool/
Update: Per the .info registrar, it appears that the opening of the .info name ...
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Friday, September 28th, 2001
Fri Sep 28 15:08:10 PDT 2001 -- We have implemented a new email anti-SPAM system and additional features to replace the rule-checking we were previously using.
The new features allow us to accept mail from our users who are accessing the net from other providers and, in the ...
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Tuesday, September 25th, 2001
Tue Sep 25 16:35:14 PDT 2001 -- Night Operations: Tonight starting at midnight we will upgrading the OS of piggy, one of our load balancing switches. This upgrade will allow us to do URL content filtering on the Alteon's providing us with tools to combat worms like CodeRed and ...
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Monday, September 24th, 2001
Mon Sep 24 11:15:08 PDT 2001 -- Our Domain Name Registration Tool will be taken offline for the following registry imposed maintenance window:
Date: Sunday, September 30, 2001 (GMT) Saturday, September 29, 2001 (EDT)
Time: 0100 hrs - 0500 hrs GMT 2100 hrs - 0100 hrs EDT
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Monday, September 24th, 2001
Mon Sep 24 13:11:20 PDT 2001 -- Our Santa Rosa dialup pool 522-1003 had experienced the dreaded 'All Circuits Are Busy' error. This was brief and was corrected by a reboot of one of our remote access servers. -Steve
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Friday, September 21st, 2001
Fri Sep 21 15:32:17 PDT 2001 -- We are currently beta testing our new email filtering software. The new software enables our customers to opt in or out of each of our anti SPAM and virus filters. It will also support customer maintained white and blacklists and stronger content ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2001
Thu Sep 20 11:33:43 PDT 2001 -- Over the course of the next few days, we are going to be pro-actively looking for customer machines that have been affected by the Nimda worm. This will take the form of several port scans per day, and we will be contacting ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2001
Thu Sep 20 01:03:47 PDT 2001 -- Timber and its services have been restored. We were able to restore about half of the customer databases from a backup taken shortly before the RAID failed and were able to restore the rest from tape. However, updates that have been made ...
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Wednesday, September 19th, 2001
Wed Sep 19 18:42:35 PDT 2001 -- Timber, our public MySQL server and weblog processing box has experienced a catastrophic RAID failure. We had scheduled maintenance tonight to replace the degraded array with an NFS export on the NetApps but, the RAID decided to fail altogether before it was ...
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Tuesday, September 18th, 2001
Tue Sep 18 09:15:36 PDT 2001 -- We're having some network issues which are intermittently affecting mail and web services right now. We're working to isolate and resolve the trouble.
This appears to be related to a new worm infecting Microsoft systems; we're rejecting thousands of attempts from ...
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