Archive for November, 2002
Monday, November 25th, 2002
Mon Nov 25 12:19:44 PST 2002 -- "Friend Greeting" Trojan/virus spreading again. A company called "Permissioned Media", apparently in Panama, is sending bogus greeting card emails which invite Internet users to come pick up a message from a friend.
The card is actually a software program, which the ...
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Monday, November 25th, 2002
Mon Nov 25 13:49:21 PST 2002 -- Denial of service attack. Sonic.net's mail servers are currently under attack from spammers. A spam run is being mounted from multiple IP addresses which is aggressive enough that it is causing our mail servers to have intermittent authentication problems as they attempt ...
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Friday, November 22nd, 2002
Fri Nov 22 17:54:06 PST 2002 -- Sonic.net is offering a promotion on new orders for SBC-ASI DSL service. This promotion begins at 5pm on Friday November 22nd and ends when we run out of free equipment, so order ASAP if you're interested.
www.sonic.net/sales/dsl/pacbell/
We're now offering ...
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2002
Wed Nov 20 08:53:31 PST 2002 -- We are seeing some DSL customer outages in the higher PVC ranges, in the wake of our OC3 work early this morning. This only affects a small part of our DSL customer base. Our operations staff is working on the problem and ...
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Wednesday, November 20th, 2002
Wed Nov 20 13:58:42 PST 2002 -- All DSL customers back on-line. During the migration, we reached a maximum customer limit on our interface card which quietly stopped binding customers. The last 25 VP's on the circuit were moved from the old circuit but not put into service by ...
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Monday, November 18th, 2002
Mon Nov 18 23:24:51 PST 2002 -- SMS Reboot. The router which terminates DSL customers rebooted again this evening around 11:25pm. We will be upgrading the IOS when we bring up the OC3 on Wednesday morning which should resolve this issue. -Matt
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Monday, November 18th, 2002
Mon Nov 18 21:53:20 PST 2002 -- CSU/DSU relocation. We will be relocating our external T1 CSU/DSU equipment on Wednesday between 1am and 3am during the ATM OC3 turn-up. This equipment serves Covad and fractional frame-relay customers as well as our ATG peering circuits. We expect less than 5 ...
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Saturday, November 16th, 2002
Sat Nov 16 10:11:20 PST 2002 -- SMS Reboot. Yesterday, at around 12:30pm, the router that handles DSL spontaneously rebooted. This has happened in the past, and we are already working with Redback to fix the problem. We apologize for not entering this in the MOTD earlier. -Sonic.net
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Friday, November 15th, 2002
Fri Nov 15 11:30:10 PST 2002 -- Mail Server Issues: Our mail server cluster experienced a brief failure this morning. We had a cascading failure which started in one of the SpamAssassin boxes and then led to failures on the mail server cluster, and then the other SpamAssassin box ...
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Friday, November 15th, 2002
Fri Nov 15 10:01:33 PST 2002 -- BIND vulnerabilities. The Berkeley Internet Name Daemon (BIND) implements a DNS nameserver, and is the most popular name server on the planet. Sonic.net uses multiple versions of BIND to support name services. The Internet Software Consortium has just disclosed multiple vulnerabilities in ...
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