Month: February 1997

Fri Feb 28 14:30:37 PST 1997 — The new news server is having some trouble, and we’re currently checking it’s filesystems. It should be back online in a few minutes. -Dane

Thu Feb 27 18:58:10 PST 1997 — During a tape backup, the shell server had trouble with it’s SCSI bus and needed to be rebooted. It was back online in a few minutes – sorry for the interruption. -Dane

Wed Feb 26 03:13:19 PST 1997 — On Wednesday February 26th, at about 3am, we commissioned our new network news server. This new server has a larger and faster disk array, which will allow us to keep news on the server longer, as well as accept more news peers. While we’ve attempted to make this upgrade as seamless as possible, the new server may not act exactly like the old server did — your patience as we iron out any problems is greatly appreciated. (Please post comments to sonic.help.) -Scott

Tue Feb 25 15:25:29 PST 1997 — UUNet’s San Jose router rebooted and was offline for about 30 minutes, and our Cisco router automaticly switched everything over to the other connection, meaning no interruption of service. These are the type of things that set Sonic apart from other ISPs – users were unaffected by an upstream outage due to our redundancy and planning. It’s great when these things work out! -Dane

Mon Feb 24 21:57:31 PST 1997 — On Wednesday February 26th, at 2am, we will commission our new network news server into production. This will mean about a 30 minute outage as our news servers swap roles. We’ve attempted to make this upgrade as seamless as possible — most especially, no changes need be made on network news clients. -Scott

Sat Feb 22 04:59:07 PST 1997 — News server update. Our new news server is still spooling news, which is currently using 4.6 GB of space on the 24 GB disk spool. We’re planning on putting it into production Tuesday or Wednesday, which will mean about a 15 minute outage during the wee hours of the morning. -Scott

Sat Feb 22 04:25:12 PST 1997 — Saturday morning, we installed a new SCSI controller and a DLT tape drive in Thunder, our web server. This will be used to make fast, automatic backups of the 12Gb RAID-5 disk array. Additionally, we added hardware to our ISDN router, which increases our ISDN capacity by 50 percent. -Scott

Fri Feb 21 19:33:42 PST 1997 — At 3am Saturday morning, we will be taking the web server offline briefly to add a new 8-bit SCSI bus. This will allow us to attach the new DLT tape drive. The installation shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes. -Scott

Thu Feb 20 11:00:58 PST 1997 — The ISDN terminal server upgrade has been rescheduled. We’ll keep you posted here. We will be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity and should only take about 10 minutes. -Dane

Thu Feb 20 21:25:40 PST 1997 — At 2am Saturday morning, we will be taking the ISDN terminal server offline briefly to install new hardware. This gives us 50% more ISDN capacity. The installation shouldn’t take longer than 30 minutes. -Scott