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Updates on E-mail maintenance.

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 reported it this morning.  Second, one the servers in our inbound mail cluster was left in the old configuration and delivered some new mail to the old message stores.  This was also fixed shortly after Tech Support reported it and any misdirected email has been redelivered to the correct location.  -Kelsey

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E-mail service interuption.

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.

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E-mail infrastructure maintenance.

Update : E-mail maintenance finished a bit ago, just cleaning up; total observed down time around 15 minutes. -Augie

This Saturday (29, August) at 12:01 AM we will be performing the first of four service impacting e-mail migrations from our existing e-mail storage infrastructure to our new (and greatly improved) storage system.

When it is completed this migration will mark a substantial improvement in our e-mail systems performance and availability for all of our customers.

During the maintenance window (12:01am – 1:00am) all customer e-mail systems will be un-available; this includes POP, IMAP, and Webmail.

–Augie

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Sacramento ATM Maintenance

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 affected customers was approximately 5 minutes, except for 4 folks that many have seen as much as 15 minutes worth of outage. -Nathan

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ATM OC12 Maintenance

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 from one cross-connect to another. This maintenance will affect some DSL and Business-T customers in the Bay Area.

-Jared and Nathan

Update: This maintenance is now complete. Actual downtime was approximately 4 minutes and 40 seconds.

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bolt security update

We upgraded the kernel running on ‘bolt’ (our customer shell server) today to address a potential security issue.
This required a reboot of the system. The system is backup and running smoothly.
-William

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Webcluster Security Changes

We have completed the migration to our new web hosting security configuration. The new system improves our already robust web site hosting platform with fully compartmentalized security and eliminates the need for cgiwrap configurations. For more information please see news://news.sonic.net/sonic.help.www -Kelsey and Nathan

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ADSL2+ Speed Reprofiling

This Wednesday, August 5 at 12:01 AM, we will be re-profiling all of our ADSL2+ lines. This will cause all ADSL2+ lines to have to re-sync, causing a minute or two of downtime for any Fusion or Flexlink ADSL2+ customer. If you have problems with your ADSL2+ line after this operation, please reboot your modem.

-Jared

Update: We have completed the re-profiling of all our ADSL2+ lines. All affected lines should be up and running at the new speeds.

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Sonic.net’s 15th Birthday

Sonic.net is celebrating 15 years of knock your socks off best Internet service ever!!!  We’ll be getting the entire crew together to celebrate August 1st from 11am – 6pm. Technical Support will be closed during that time and will be back on the Internet and ready to take your call at 6pm. The NOC Hotline will be available as usual. Thank you all for your continued support. We couldn’t have done it without you!

- Jen and Adam

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CLEC DSLAM maintenance

This Friday, at 12:01AM, we will be performing intrusive maintenance on one of our DSLAMs in San Francisco. This DSLAM serves Fusion and Flexlink ADSL2+ customers in the South Beach area. This work will cause an interruption of service for about 20 minutes while we replace a line card.

-Tim and Clay

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