Archive for March, 2005
Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
Wed Mar 30 17:16:27 PST 2005 -- Sonic.net announces firewalling for DSL connections.
I am happy to announce that Sonic.net will be providing firewall protection for DSL connections, beginning on April 12th, about two weeks from now. There are more and more threats to computers which are coming ...
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Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005
Wed Mar 23 13:46:37 PST 2005 -- New Inbound Mail Servers. We added two new mail servers to handle MX services for inbound mail. The new servers will enable us to continue to make advancements in the quality of our MTA level SPAM, virus and phish blocking while also ...
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Monday, March 21st, 2005
Mon Mar 21 17:07:11 PST 2005 -- Scheduled Data Center Maintenance. On Tuesday and Wednesday, 3/22-23/05, we will be doing maintenance on the power system in the Santa Rosa data center. This activity will be fully scripted and we anticipate no interruption in service of any kind. -John, Russ ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
Wed Mar 16 11:13:36 PST 2005 -- Office phone system problems. This morning we experienced a phone system circuit outage which prevented the Sonic.net offices from receiving any inbound calls. All of our dial-up and other Internet services were functioning normally during the outage, but our support department, billing ...
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Tuesday, March 15th, 2005
Tue Mar 15 09:55:12 PST 2005 -- Another brief DoS attack was targeted at one of our DSL subscribers in Santa Rosa. The customer's circuit has been disabled and their IPs have been blocked at our borders pending further investigation on our part. During this time DSL customers terminated ...
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Monday, March 14th, 2005
Mon Mar 14 11:39:53 PST 2005 -- DoS Attack. A brief DoS attack was targeted at our network, most likely at a DSL customer terminated in Santa Rosa. While the attack was underway DSL customers in Santa Rosa may have experienced some loss and latency and associated issues. It's ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
Thu Mar 10 18:11:34 PST 2005 -- Update on Network Event. Upon further investigation we were able to determine that the problem was not caused by a failure inside our network but that our L2 transport provider between Santa Rosa and San Jose was flooding both ends of our ...
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Thursday, March 10th, 2005
Thu Mar 10 16:49:14 PST 2005 -- Backbone Network Degradation. A little after 4 PM today our router in San Jose failed. This affected our outside connectivity until we could reroute traffic onto backup circuits in San Francisco a short time ago. We are working now to diagnose the ...
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
Tue Mar 8 08:55:37 PST 2005 -- Loss from Santa Rosa to San Jose. This morning at around 7:55am our link from Santa Rosa to San Jose started to show packet drops. We shut the circuit down at 8:15am, leveraging our redundant gigabit ethernet ring between Santa Rosa, San ...
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
Fri Mar 4 22:17:43 PST 2005 -- GlobalPops to begin restricting mail server access. Our national dialup service provider is going to begin blocking our customers' access to any other email forwarding servers besides mail.sonic.net. For most customers, this means no change. For any customer who sends email through ...
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