Archive for July, 2005
Friday, July 29th, 2005
Fri Jul 29 15:48:37 PDT 2005 -- Dialup Hardware Upgrades. On Monday, 8/1, at 10 AM, we will be upgrading the hardware that serves the dialup phone numbers ending in -9606. A few customers may have to reconnect after the upgrade occurs. -Russ, Nathan and John
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Thursday, July 28th, 2005
Thu Jul 28 11:26:07 PDT 2005 -- Broadlink Firewalling. After a number of delays we have applied firewalling to all Broadlink DSL subscribers. The same firewalls for SBC DSL subscribers are available to all Broadlink subscribers but any change to the firewalling configuration must be executed manually by a ...
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2005
Wed Jul 27 12:46:04 PDT 2005 -- Broadlink termination gear upgrade. We will be upgrading the firmware on the termination hardware that serves Broadlink customers at 12:01am on 7/28/05. This preventative maintenance will ensure continued stability for Broadlink customers. Customers will experience approximately 20 minutes worth of downtime while ...
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Monday, July 25th, 2005
Mon Jul 25 16:22:18 PDT 2005 -- Due to our upgrades away from multiple T3 backbone connections and over to Gigabit links, we currently have excess capacity on our redundant fiber SONET ring. This ring leaves our building at two points, and follows separate routes to the Santa Rosa ...
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Sunday, July 24th, 2005
Sun Jul 24 10:40:35 PDT 2005 -- Sonic.net support will be closed today from 11AM until 5PM for our company picnic and 11th anniversary celebration. We're sorry for any inconvenience, and we will be back on duty from 5PM on this evening, and will respond to voicemail and email ...
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2005
Wed Jul 20 17:03:26 PDT 2005 -- In our ongoing quest to improve the quality and the reliability of the services we provide, we have deployed three new non-recursive geographically diverse name servers in Santa Rosa, San Francisco and New York. All sonic.net zones have been running off of ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
Thu Jul 14 10:50:28 PDT 2005 -- BroadLink again appears to be having some instability in their network, and they are currently working to ascertain what's going wrong. At this point, an estimated time to repair is not available. -Dane
Update, Thu Jul 14 12:43:30, BroadLink reports that ...
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
Thu Jul 14 15:59:22 PDT 2005 -- BroadLink serving equipment upgrade. Tonight at midnight, we will be upgrading the equipment that connects Sonic.net with BroadLink. Expected downtime is about fifteen minutes.
Update: Never mind. We're short some parts - we'll need to reschedule this upgrade.
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Thursday, July 14th, 2005
Thu Jul 14 15:34:00 PDT 2005 -- Non-service-affecting network maintenance. We will be replacing failed hardware on one of our core switches at 12:01 AM Friday. We do not anticipate any downtime as part of this maintenance. -Jared and Nathan
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Monday, July 11th, 2005
Mon Jul 11 15:25:36 PDT 2005 -- Widespread Broadlink Wireless DSL outage. At this time most Broadlink Wireless customers are offline. Broadlink is working hard to restore service from this interruption, and expect to have the network up and working soon. -Tim from Broadlink, and Kavan
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