Archive for November, 2004
Wednesday, November 24th, 2004
Wed Nov 24 15:26:59 PST 2004 -- More Kernel Updates. We've identified a bug in the 2.4.28 linux kernel's arp subsystem that causes some significant problems during the booting of our servers. While we continue to track down this bug we've back ported the security updates to 2.4.27. Unfortunately ...
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Tuesday, November 23rd, 2004
Tue Nov 23 17:35:43 PST 2004 -- Kernel Security Updates. We are in the process of upgrading the Linux kernels on most of our servers to resolve a potential security problem. Thanks to clustering of our major services these upgrades usually go unnoticed; however, we've had a increased call ...
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Friday, November 12th, 2004
Fri Nov 12 12:51:05 PST 2004 -- Domain Locking FAQ. It has come to our attention that misleading notifications are being mailed to domain name owners regarding new ICANN policy and domain registration transfers. These notifications warn that malicious interlopers can assume control of domain names without confirmation from ...
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Thursday, November 11th, 2004
Thu Nov 11 10:52:23 PST 2004 -- Cluster migration note for cgi-bins. If you don't know what a "cgi-bin" is, please disregard this notice -- if you do, please read on. This effects anyone running cgi-bin's on the new web cluster, including folks running cgi-bin's on www.sonic.net.
The ...
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Wednesday, November 10th, 2004
Wed Nov 10 16:16:10 PST 2004 -- www.sonic.net migration complete. www.sonic.net is now served off of Sonic.net's new web cluster. The new web cluster is faster and more up-to-date, offering customers a modern, high-performance environment for web hosting. Additionally, FrontPage 2003 is supported.
Discussion of the upgrade ...
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Tuesday, November 9th, 2004
Tue Nov 9 17:04:39 PST 2004 -- www.sonic.net migration postponed until 11am tomorrow (Wednesday). The migration of www.sonic.net to the new cluster has been postponed due to a process that is taking longer than expected. The process is looking for Berkeley DB files to be upgraded as part of ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2004
Fri Nov 5 20:53:06 PST 2004 -- Network maintenance tonight. At midnight tonight, we will be putting the last of our new Juniper routers into the network. Traffic will be routed around Equinix during this work so no major interruptions should occur. There may be minor, momentary delays as ...
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Friday, November 5th, 2004
Fri Nov 5 18:46:55 PST 2004 -- www.sonic.net migration to new web cluster. On Tuesday, November 9th, at 11am, we will migrate "www.sonic.net" to our new web cluster. This migration should be seamless for almost all customers.
Customers who would like to test their sites on the new ...
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004
Tue Nov 2 17:02:29 PST 2004 -- HotSpot Outage in Santa Rosa. The ethernet port that serves the hotspot users on the RedBack SMS in Santa Rosa failed, interrupting services. We were able migrate to another available port to restore services to hotspot users. - Nathan, Kelsey and Jared ...
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Tuesday, November 2nd, 2004
Tue Nov 2 15:47:47 PST 2004 -- FrontPage extensions tool online. Sonic.net has rolled out our new tool for adding FrontPage server extensions to a Sonic.net hosted web directory. This tool currently works for Value Hosting customers, as well as Basic Hosting customers (that have migrated to the new ...
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