Archive for October, 2002

SpamAssassin and Graymail updates: We’ve just

Thursday, October 31st, 2002

Thu Oct 31 13:14:49 PST 2002 -- SpamAssassin and Graymail updates: We've just completed upgrading SpamAssassin to the latest stable release and added a new feature to the GUI. Users can now optionally choose to have our servers dump blacklisted senders so they'll neither end up in your inbox ...

sms reboot.

Sunday, October 27th, 2002

Sun Oct 27 09:05:20 PST 2002 -- sms reboot. Our sms decided to reboot itself this morning, causing about a 10 minute outage with DSL and FRATM T1's. When the Redback sms crashed, it wrote a crash dump to a flash card, which is why it took so long ...

Busies on 9811 dial-up numbers.

Friday, October 25th, 2002

Fri Oct 25 08:23:51 PDT 2002 -- Busies on 9811 dial-up numbers. We are currently experiencing busy signals on our Focal dial-up numbers in San Francisco. We are on the line with Focal and will work to resolve this quickly. Please note, we have other numbers available which can ...

We believe that we have located the cause of…

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002

Wed Oct 23 17:25:50 PDT 2002 -- We believe that we have located the cause of the Alteon's instability and will be reconfiguring it and two of our other switches at 1:00AM tomorrow morning. We don't believe that it will cause any interruption of service, however, if it does ...

Night Ops Completed: We performed all of the…

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002

Wed Oct 23 02:37:33 PDT 2002 -- Night Ops Completed: We performed all of the planned maintenance without any customer impact. It appears the Cable and Wireless did not enable multicast routing on our upstream router but multicast is tested and functional within our network as intended. Hopefully they ...

Software issue with Alteon.

Wednesday, October 23rd, 2002

Wed Oct 23 13:32:34 PDT 2002 -- Software issue with Alteon. A failure of the link between our Alteon and switch caused locally hosted web sites and email to be unavailable for 15 minutes. This time, rebooting the Alteon did not fix the issue. We are monitoring the device ...

Busy signals on 707-823-8812.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Tue Oct 22 23:29:58 PDT 2002 -- Busy signals on 707-823-8812. We discovered that a bad modem card in our Sebastopol dial group was causing fast busy signals during peak calling times. The card has been taken out of service for repair. We will add the new card when ...

load balancer hiccuped.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Tue Oct 22 20:51:04 PDT 2002 -- load balancer hiccuped. Our load balancer for web and mail services stopped functioning momentarily -- a fast thwap of the box fixed the problem. -Scott

Invoice-to-fax system change.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Tue Oct 22 15:24:17 PDT 2002 -- Invoice-to-fax system change. From now on, the invoice-to-fax system will only deliver faxes from 8am-8pm. This should solve the problem with home users getting faxes in the wee hours of the morning. We apologize for that inconvenience. -Scott and Nicki

Night Ops: We are going to upgrade part of…

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2002

Tue Oct 22 14:37:31 PDT 2002 -- Night Ops: We are going to upgrade part of our core network tonight after Midnight, in order to support multicast to our DSL subscribers. After the maintenance is complete our ADSL users should be able to access multicast streams carried by Cable ...