Archive for October, 2001
Wednesday, October 31st, 2001
Wed Oct 31 11:14:52 PST 2001 -- We will be upgrading firmware on our primary core switch at 1AM Thursday morning. Downtime is expected to be two to three minutes while the switch reboots after the upgrade. The bug fixes in this release should resolve some of the instability ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2001
Wed Oct 31 17:07:18 PST 2001 -- Our October domain registration special expires tonight, so if you're interested in securing a domain name under the special pricing, see the tools at:
sonic.sonic.net/members/domain_tool/
-Chuck and Dane
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2001
Tue Oct 30 09:39:14 PST 2001 -- shell.sonic.net has been moved to our new shell server, newbolt.sonic.net. bolt.sonic.net points toward this system now as well, but please always use shell.sonic.net as the primary name for shell service.
The old shell server was halted last night at 12:30AM after ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2001
Tue Oct 30 00:47:42 PST 2001 -- We have shutdown bolt.sonic.net due to some possible security concerns. Our new shell server, newbolt.sonic.net is fully operational at this time so please use it instead. Direct-dial shell accounts are disabled and will be reactivated in the morning. -Kelsey, Eli and Scott ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2001
Mon Oct 29 12:02:42 PST 2001 -- With the shift to standard time, Sonic.net has moved our administrative office hours to 8am to 5pm PST.
Technical support continues to be available from 8am to 9pm weekdays, and 9am to 9pm on weekends. Support can process new user sign-ups, ...
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Friday, October 26th, 2001
Fri Oct 26 15:46:01 PDT 2001 -- An issue with our phone system was causing some of our tech support numbers to report that they were disconnected between the hours of 6:00pm and 9:00am. We had a phone tech come out and take a look at our system and ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2001
Sun Oct 21 20:46:17 PDT 2001 -- We've been having some intermittent failures this afternoon of the connection between all of our PacWest xxx-0174 dialup numbers, which are terminated in Oakland and our main datacenter in Santa Rosa. We're working now to diagnose the cause of the trouble and ...
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Saturday, October 20th, 2001
Sat Oct 20 10:37:41 PDT 2001 -- Currently, Sonic.net's credit card transaction processing is unavailable. This prevents payment of renewals, new sign-ups, domain registrations, etc. We expect to have this resolved shortly, please try again later. -Dane
Update: Transaction processing is back online.
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Friday, October 19th, 2001
Fri Oct 19 08:26:11 PDT 2001 -- We've got new quota monitoring tools online in the "Member Tools" area. Users over or projected to be over quota have received warning emails with a link to the tools. If you're curious about your disk or bandwidth usage, see the member ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2001
Wed Oct 17 11:23:39 PDT 2001 -- During the last couple of days we had to take down some of the capacity from our 522-1003 dialup pool and move it to the focal hunt group, this was a temporary measure which may have caused some intermittent busy signals when ...
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