Archive for April, 2004
Tuesday, April 13th, 2004
Tue Apr 13 18:07:02 PDT 2004 -- UUNet Scheduled Network Maintenance. On April 27th at 3AM MCI will be upgrading the software on our UUNet upstream router. Customers may notice loss of connectivity for approximately 30 seconds while BGP re-converges and traffic is routed via alternate paths. -Network Operations ...
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2004
Tue Apr 13 16:11:00 PDT 2004 -- Microsoft Security Updates for April 2004. Microsoft has released a number of new critical updates for Windows systems, and Sonic.net customers who use Windows should run Windows update to keep their systems secure. For full information on the current updates, see:
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Monday, April 12th, 2004
Mon Apr 12 21:01:29 PDT 2004 -- NFS disk failure. Today marks icebox, our NFS filer's, 365 days uptime. In honor of the occasion, icebox failed a disk this evening. From 8:19 to 8:35 services that depend on icebox were down. This includes web hosting, SSL, and our internal ...
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Saturday, April 10th, 2004
Sat Apr 10 20:13:16 PDT 2004 -- Multicast and IPv6 Outage. The router that serves both multicast and IPv6 services locked up approximately 15 minutes ago. A reboot brought the device back up. -Nathan and Justin
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Thursday, April 8th, 2004
Thu Apr 8 18:30:59 PDT 2004 -- Updated Email Filtering. We have employed a multi layered system to fight spam for quite some time. While SpamAssassin and Virus filtering have gotten all of the recent attention, we have also used the MAPS RBLs, or real-time blacklists, to reject mail ...
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Monday, April 5th, 2004
Mon Apr 5 14:40:07 PDT 2004 -- Hard Disk Quotas Enabled. We've enabled hard disk quotas on all major service directories for user to eliminate the ability for a single user to consume all available disk space. We've configured the quotas with a high upper limit of 2G per ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2004
Sun Apr 4 17:41:46 PDT 2004 -- Mail Cluster Update. We've fixed the DoS 'attack' that was responsible for the recent instability problems with our mail cluster. Astute users may see the connection between the last two MOTDs. In order to restore stability to our mail cluster we finally ...
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Sunday, April 4th, 2004
Sun Apr 4 13:58:05 PDT 2004 -- /home filled up. Someone managed to consume 25 Gigabytes of storage on our /home partition this morning. You may have seen "no space left on device" if you use our shell server. The problem was cleared up at 7:44am. -Scott
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Saturday, April 3rd, 2004
Sat Apr 3 19:01:11 PST 2004 -- Mail Cluster Hiccup. The mail cluster that servers outbound email for mail.sonic.net failed this evening. Both dual Xeon servers needed to be rebooted to restore services. It's believed that our anti-virus software took both servers out. -Operations
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Thursday, April 1st, 2004
Thu Apr 1 09:11:28 PST 2004 -- Mail alias changes. We are making changes to email delivery to certain aliases. These aliases are of the form "username@pop.sonic.net", "username@mail.sonic.net", and "username@bolt.sonic.net".
You may have received an email from us regarding this. The mailing was not based on actual use ...
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