Archive for July, 2004
Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Tue Jul 27 17:30:13 PDT 2004 -- Santa Rosa Redback reboot Thursday morning. We are going to reboot the Santa Rosa DSL gateway at 12:30 AM Thursday, July 29. Expected downtime for DSL customers served through this equipment is expected to be 15 minutes. This action is part of ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Tue Jul 27 16:37:50 PDT 2004 -- MTA Filter hiccup. We tripped over a bug in our custom MTA level RBL filter application resulting in no MTA level spam filtering when we rerouted list traffic through our MX servers this afternoon. The MTA filters have just been restored and ...
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Tuesday, July 27th, 2004
Tue Jul 27 15:12:03 PDT 2004 -- List server changes. Our new mailman list server is online and ready for action. Mailman is significantly more user friendly than majordomo and features intuitive web based management of list configuration and subscribers. Inbound list server emails have also been rerouted to ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2004
Mon Jul 26 13:47:51 PDT 2004 -- We've upgraded SpamAssassin! The long awaited SpamAssassin upgrade has been completed!
Currently, we are running a 3.0 pre-release version which we will upgrade when 3.0 goes gold. Even this pre-release version has already proven to be more effective at catching the ...
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Monday, July 26th, 2004
Mon Jul 26 13:29:37 PDT 2004 -- Sonic.net filters new virus. A new variant of the MyDoom virus started hitting Internet users recently. It harvests email addresses from the victim machine and sends messages that purport to be from the recipient's Internet Service Provider. Sonic.net is filtering this virus ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2004
Fri Jul 23 17:55:31 PDT 2004 -- Sonic.net will be closed for our 10th anniversary party, Sunday the 25th of July.
Thanks everyone for a wonderful decade in business! It's been wonderful and fun for me, Scott and the rest of the team. Thanks very much to the ...
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Friday, July 23rd, 2004
Fri Jul 23 17:38:19 PDT 2004 -- Santa Rosa DSL performance problems. Some of our customers served from our Santa Rosa DSL gateway are seeing performance problems, such as increased packet latency and packet loss. We are collecting as much diagnostic information as possible in order to isolate the ...
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Thursday, July 22nd, 2004
Thu Jul 22 14:32:10 PDT 2004 -- Customer T1 outages in San Francisco. We are experiencing an outage of the facility carrying customer T1 circuits into our San Francisco POP. We expect this to be repaired and back into service by 3pm. -John, Zeke, Jared and Sonic.net Operations
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Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
Tue Jul 20 23:21:52 PDT 2004 -- Short Stockton DSL outage Wednesday night. The company that hosts our POP in Stockton is doing some work Wed. night, 7/21/04, from 11 pm to 1 am that will cause an outage for our Stockton area DSL customers. The expected downtime is ...
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Monday, July 19th, 2004
Mon Jul 19 15:47:14 PDT 2004 -- Newscene.com maintenance window. On Thursday, July 22, Newscene.com will be performing maintenance on newscene.sonic.net. Expected downtime is 60 minutes, and the work will start at some time between 11am and 3pm PDT.
This only affects customers with newsreaders that use newscene.sonic.net. ...
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