Month: April 1997

Sat Apr 26 17:52:27 PDT 1997 — The main ISDN Portmaster has had some ongoing intermittant problems, and I’ve just upgraded the operating system to fix the documented bugs. The 3.3.2 operating system has been replaced with 3.5, and there’s a large list of bugs that they’ve squashed. Sorry for the poor, intermittant performance, particularly this AM. -Dane

Fri Apr 25 10:06:37 PDT 1997 — UUNet, Sprintlink, MCI and other major backbone carriers had massive routing instability which affected us. Basicly, a Sprintlink customer was announcing that they were the first class C of every classless (CIDR) block on the Internet, and UUNet and others were listening to them. This customer says that it was actually one of their downstream customers, and that they’ve taken that customer and their routers offline. They’ve blamed a bug is their main Bay Networks router for a bug in it’s announcement filtering. Eventually, routes converged, and the network stabilized. -Dane and Scott

Fri Apr 25 09:28:35 PDT 1997 — UUNet is having massive routing problems ‘nationwide’ which are affecting us. It seems that a Sprintlink customer is announcing that they are us, and UUNet and others are listening to them instead of us. We’re working on this now.

Fri Apr 25 06:15:28 PDT 1997 — For the last two days, we’ve been implementing enhancements to our mail servers’ policy enforcement. A most important update: third-party relay has been disabled on our mail servers. Please read www.sonic.net/info/relay/ for details. I’ll also make a post to news://sonic.general -Scott

Wed Apr 23 00:52:11 PDT 1997 — We uncovered a bug in our Cisco 7010’s operating system (oh, lucky us) that caused problems with our 45Mbps HSSI interface. (The HSSI input queue ‘wedged’ during a reboot.) We’ve upgraded the router’s operating system (IOS – ‘THE’ Internet Operating System, it’s the way the world works) to Cisco’s latest release, 11.0(14a)). -Dane and Scott

Tue Apr 22 23:54:13 PDT 1997 — Our DS3 is back up. It turns out we’ve uncovered a bug in our Cisco 7010’s operating system (oh, lucky us). We’ve adjusted the router configuration so as not to trigger the bug, and rebooted. We’re currently getting our ducks in a row to reload with a new operating system. -Scott and Dane

Tue Apr 22 22:22:46 PDT 1997 — Our DS3 is still down. It turns out we’ve uncovered a bug in our Cisco 7010’s operating system (oh, lucky us). We’re currently getting our ducks in a row to reload with a new operating system. Meanwhile, our backup DS1 with MCI is operating correctly (although it is very busy.) -Scott

Tue Apr 22 19:22:40 PDT 1997 — One of our circuits to the Internet is currently down. We are taking measures to get it back up as soon as possible. Users will notice slow performance, but should not notice an outage. We will update when we know more. -Dustin

Thu Apr 17 12:35:13 PDT 1997 — AOL’s mail delivery troubles have gotten a bit better – there are currently only 902 outstanding messages deferred due to load on their mail exchange servers. Compare to ~13,200 this time yesterday, and it looks like they made some fixes or changes. Delayed mail will eventually be delivered, but if you get complaints of slow delivery from users who you send to on AOL, please take it up with AOL, or tip them off on how nice Sonic is. 😉 -Dane

Wed Apr 16 22:04:48 PDT 1997 — Our 547-2000 ISDN hunt group is back in operation. Apparently, at some point after 6pm, our equipment was unable to register SPIDs with PacBell’s ISDN switch. So, a port would be usable until a disconnect, at which point it would go into ‘NO-SERVICE’ state. Rebooting the ISDN router resulted in ‘NO-SERVICE’ on all ports, as well as ‘NT-1 attached, but telco isn’t there’ messages. We regained service just before 10pm. Priority Repair was unable to tell me what happened, so all I know is that a) we didn’t change anything, and b) when I rebooted the ISDN router (around 8pm), it had been up for 56 days. -Scott