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DSL DHCP Server Issues

Saturday, October 10th, 2009

Early this morning four of our DHCP servers started having issues responding quickly to DCHP requests.  These simultaneous failures overwhelmed our ability to migrate load to our hot-standby servers but we were able to put several work-arounds in place to mitigate the issues.  These failures were initially believed to be ...

ATM Customer Aggregation Router Reload

Tuesday, September 29th, 2009

This upcoming Thursday, Oct 1 at 12:01 AM, we will be performing a maintenance reload on our ATM customer aggregation routers. This will result in 5-10 minutes of downtime for Business-T and FRATM customers. -Jared Update: The router reloads have been completed without incident. All Business-T and FRATM customers should be back ...

DSL Outage, Santa Rosa

Friday, September 25th, 2009

Starting at approximately 9:50 this evening, some areas of Santa Rosa began experiencing intermittent DSL connectivity.   We are working with ATT to resolve the issue.    As a result of this outage, the telephone wait for Technical Support is unusually high.  We expect resolution shortly, but do not have an ...

ADSL2+ Linecard Maintenance

Monday, September 14th, 2009

Tonight, this Tuesday, Sep 15 at 12:01 AM, we will be performing a software upgrade of the linecards that provide ADSL2+ service out of our Downtown Santa Rosa CO. This will cause a brief disruption of service to ADSL2+ customers in that area. Affected customers will experience approximately 5 minutes ...

DSL Customer Migration

Friday, September 11th, 2009

This evening, Saturday September 12, at 12:01 AM, we will be migrating some of our dynamic IP DSL subscribers from a heavily loaded DSL aggregation router to a newer, less loaded one. Affected customers may see an interruption in their Internet connectivity for 5-10 minutes. We apologize for the short ...

Large DoS Attack

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

This afternoon at 12:15 PM a huge DoS attack was aimed at a customer on our Sonic Telecom CLEC network. The DoS attack was large enough to destabilize routing in our CLEC network, so customers may have seen 10-15 minutes of spotty connectivity as we tracked down and blocked the ...

Updates on E-mail maintenance.

Saturday, August 29th, 2009

A couple of issues showed up this morning that were not picked up by our monitoring systems or testing after the night-op.  First, some users migrated to the new message stores were unable do use IMAP or webmail to access their e-mail.  This problem was fixed shortly after Tech Support ...

E-mail service interuption.

Friday, August 28th, 2009

For about an hour this afternoon SSL connections to our POP servers (pop.sonic.net) were unavailable; we have remedied the problem and are investigating the cause. During this time non-SSL connections to pop.sonic.net still worked, and both SSL and non-SSL connections to our IMAP cluster (imap.sonic.net) were unaffected. --Augie, Kelsey, and William.

Sacramento ATM Maintenance

Thursday, August 20th, 2009

This Friday, August 21 at 12:01 AM we will be performing maintenance to upgrade an ATM aggregation circuit. We are doing this work to clear a capacity problem that the existing link faces during peak times. Sorry for the short notice. -Jared and Nathan Update: The migration is now complete. Downtime for ...

ATM OC12 Maintenance

Monday, August 17th, 2009

This Wednesday, August 19 at 12:01 AM we will be performing fiber maintenance on one of our OC12 circuits that aggregates DSL service in the Bay Area. We will be moving the OC12 to a new in-building cross-connect. Expected downtime is less than 5 minutes as we move the fiber ...