Archive for November, 2001

Hardware failure on the 522-1003 dialup group

Wednesday, November 28th, 2001

Wed Nov 28 10:30:07 PST 2001 -- Hardware failure on the 522-1003 dialup group caused some intermittent busy signals. We have isolated the hardware and are in the process of replacing it. -Steve

One of our HyPer DSP cards in the XXX-9811…

Wednesday, November 28th, 2001

Wed Nov 28 16:23:08 PST 2001 -- One of our HyPer DSP cards in the XXX-9811 was configured incorrectly. After analyzing our connection logs and and seeing excessive 14.4kbps connections, we were able to locate the card and re-program it to behave more appropriately. -Steve and Russ

We have upgraded our mail servers to a new…

Monday, November 19th, 2001

Mon Nov 19 17:24:09 PST 2001 -- We have upgraded our mail servers to a new kernel (version 2.4.14) and are now running Network File System Version 3 (NFSv3). This should resolve the occasional corruption of mail boxes and increase overall system performance. -Russ and Kelsey

Night Operations Complete.

Saturday, November 17th, 2001

Sat Nov 17 00:43:25 PST 2001 -- Night Operations Complete. Ape rebooted successfully without a hitch. Total downtime was less than 2 minutes. We also reinstalled the secondary MSM to restore the switch's internal redundancy. -Kelsey and Matt

Newbolt maintenance.

Friday, November 16th, 2001

Fri Nov 16 12:14:24 PST 2001 -- Newbolt maintenance. At Noon we booted Newbolt in single-user mode to move some filesystems around. Maintenance went smoothly, and Newbolt is back online. -Scott

Newbolt maintenance.

Friday, November 16th, 2001

Fri Nov 16 11:20:35 PST 2001 -- Newbolt maintenance. At Noon (that is, in about 40 minutes), Newbolt will be shut down for some quick maintenance of its filesystems. Downtime will be about 15 minutes. We apologize for any inconvenience. -Scott

Night Operations: We need to reboot one of…

Friday, November 16th, 2001

Fri Nov 16 20:07:37 PST 2001 -- Night Operations: We need to reboot one of our core switches due to the fact that one of it's internal processes has gone offline. The process doesn't affect normal operations, only our ability to manage the switch. We are going to reboot ...

We’ve got two webcams in our datacenter that…

Friday, November 16th, 2001

Fri Nov 16 15:02:42 PST 2001 -- We've got two webcams in our datacenter that you can now view. An Axis Neteye camera is pointed at a section of the colocation space, and a ComCam streaming camera is pointed toward the Cobalt colocations and the entry area. The ...

New httpd executable online.

Wednesday, November 14th, 2001

Wed Nov 14 11:56:18 PST 2001 -- New httpd executable online. After extensive testing on Thunder port 81, We have upgraded our web servers to support php4. Please let use know if anyone has trouble with web pages. Thanks. -Scott

Even newer httpd executable online for…

Wednesday, November 14th, 2001

Wed Nov 14 15:07:41 PST 2001 -- Even newer httpd executable online for testing. We have some concerns about the new web server executable, so we are testing an even newer executable on thunder:81. We'd appreciate it if folks could test their web sites -- especially those using php ...