Archive for January, 2008
Thursday, January 31st, 2008
Thu Jan 31 14:29:24 PST 2008 -- Upstream Network Problems. At 2:00pm this afternoon, one of our upstream network providers at our Los Angeles POP experienced a widespread outage. Customers in the LA area would have noticed spotty Internet connectivity. We have since rerouted traffic via a redundant link ...
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Tuesday, January 29th, 2008
Tue Jan 29 15:54:31 PST 2008 -- Sonic.net now offers WAP enabled Webmail for your favorite mobile devices (Phone, PDA, etc.); this provides a quick and easy way to access your email when you are on the go. To try it visit m.sonic.net from any WAP2/XHTML compatible mobile device. ...
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Monday, January 28th, 2008
Mon Jan 28 21:16:52 PST 2008 -- Hardware changes are going to be performed in a maintenance window from 12:01 AM - 2:00 AM (Tuesday morning, the 29th) on ssl.sonic.net. I will also be performing some changes to the replication system on custsql.sonic.net, which may cause some periods of ...
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Saturday, January 26th, 2008
Sat Jan 26 18:24:57 PST 2008 -- San Diego Packet Loss. This afternoon San Diego DSL customers began noticing 10-15% packet loss on their DSL lines. Upon inspection we found that one of the uplinks on our SMS that serves that area was taking errors. We re-routed traffic to ...
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Saturday, January 19th, 2008
Sat Jan 19 12:17:17 PST 2008 -- Massive DoS Attack. One of our customers was the target of a massive denial of service attack. This attack caused minor internal routing issues as we tracked it down and blocked it at our edge. Customers may have seen spotty Internet connectivity ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Fri Jan 18 01:09:33 PST 2008 -- Santa Rosa Transport Failure. Earlier today one of our two redundant GigaMAN transport links out of our Santa Rosa datacenter flapped. We took the link out of routing and began troubleshooting the problem with AT&T. Customers saw no disruption as all our ...
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Friday, January 18th, 2008
Fri Jan 18 00:31:09 PST 2008 -- The previously mentioned customer SQL upgrades that were to take place tonight are being rescheduled. -Don
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Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Thu Jan 17 17:08:30 PST 2008 -- Customer SQL server maintenance. Tonight at 12:01AM I will be performing upgrades on custsql.sonic.net which will result in a required reboot of the system. Customers using custsql may notice a period of about 10 minutes where their databases may be unresponsive. -Don ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
Tue Jan 15 16:15:16 PST 2008 -- Customer router upgrades. This Thursday at 12:01 AM we will be performing minor maintenance on two of our customer routers in Santa Rosa. One router will be undergoing a minor software upgrade and reboot, while the other is having new hardware installed. ...
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Wednesday, January 9th, 2008
Wed Jan 9 11:20:42 PST 2008 -- SpamAssassin has been upgraded to the latest stable release along with some of the underlying utilities that detect and filter spam. We expect users to see better mail filtering and performance from these upgrades. -William and the SOC
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