Archive for December, 2001
Monday, December 31st, 2001
Mon Dec 31 12:53:33 PST 2001 -- On December 24th at 3:15pm, freezer, one of our Network Appliance F740 filers failed and icebox, it's cluster partner, took over its operations. There was no interruption in services during the takeover. This is the first time that we have had an ...
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Monday, December 31st, 2001
Mon Dec 31 13:14:37 PST 2001 -- Sundry Updates and Changes: We have improved the DOS detection scheme in our POP3 servers to eliminate false positives. In the past, some users may have received an error, "Slow down; you are reconnecting too fast" This primarily effected users behind office ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2001
Sat Dec 22 19:46:19 PST 2001 -- Microsoft Windows security issue update. Sonic.net has placed filters online which block traffic to ports 1900 and 5000, which the FBI is currently recommending to limit the scope of the current Windows XP security flaw.
As these ports are used for ...
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Saturday, December 22nd, 2001
Sat Dec 22 16:55:42 PST 2001 -- Community.net members on-board at Sonic.net. We have taken on about 2,000 new members of Community.net, which is ceasing operations.
We'd like to welcome these new customers to our own community here at Sonic.net. Thanks very much to David Talley and the ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2001
Fri Dec 21 18:44:15 PST 2001 -- Microsoft Windows security issue. A major security vulnerability has been announced that affects all MS/Windows XP machines, and which affects Win98/ME machines that have the WinXP ICS (Internet Connection Sharing) package installed.
We've noticed a significant slowdown when accessing the Windows ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2001
Fri Dec 21 17:24:27 PST 2001 -- We've updated our acceptable use policy (AUP). Updates include more information about abuse, SPAM, copyright issues, quotas, support policies and other changes.
Please take a look at the AUP at www.sonic.net/aup/ and let us know if you have any questions ...
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Friday, December 21st, 2001
Fri Dec 21 13:28:17 PST 2001 -- Broadlink has lost power to the Mt. Barham site which serves North Eastern & Eastern Santa Rosa. PG&E scheduled an outage but the site owner failed to inform Broadlink of the down time. This affects approximately 130 customers and the ETR is ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2001
Thu Dec 20 12:31:23 PST 2001 -- We are pleased to announce that OpenSRS will be moving their registry network to a new co-location facility provided by IBM.
To facilitate this move, we will be bringing our domain registration and management tools off-line on Saturday, December 22nd from ...
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Thursday, December 20th, 2001
Thu Dec 20 10:23:05 PST 2001 -- Disk Quota Updates: We have implemented incremental billing for Disk Quota usage. Disk usage over base quota is billed at $10 per 80MB in $1 increments for every 8MB. Our bandwidth and disk quota policies have been updated to reflect the recent ...
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Wednesday, December 19th, 2001
Wed Dec 19 11:58:34 PST 2001 -- The OpenSRS system experienced a brief but total system outage today from 09:30-09:40 PST. All systems are now responding normally. OpenSRS has isolated the cause, and made appropriate changes to ensure that this does not happen again. We apologize for any inconvenience ...
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