Month: June 1997

Mon Jun 9 20:46:01 PDT 1997 — We’re experimenting with some SPAM canceling software on the news server, so you may notice a bit less massively crossposted off topic ads in some groups. We’re tuning things right now, so the behavior will change a bit in the next few weeks. -Dane

Fri Jun 6 18:50:13 PDT 1997 — We’ve added a lot of cool new things the last few days – check them out. All are linked from our home page currently in the what’s new section. -Dane

POP locator – find a local dialup: www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/pops.pl WWW/FTP/etc directory manager (replaces wwwme, cgime shell tools etc.): www.sonic.net/tools/cgi-rduser/dirs.pl

Events Calander – publicize events: www.sonic.net/cal/

Thu Jun 5 18:10:14 PDT 1997 — Someone in Germany seems to have gotten upset with one of our customers and decided to flood them off the Internet. The resulting traffic caused problems with pm8 and pm9 this afternoon, so if you noticed odd slow performance or disconnects around 4:30pm, this might explain it. We’ve blocked traffic from the offending host. -Dane

Thu Jun 5 03:18:34 PDT 1997 — news.sonic.net (Ultra) was down from 1:59am until about 2:50am to swap out the Ethernet card. Please see my post in sonic.help (thread: ‘…this is silly’ 🙂 for more information. -Scott

Update – this seems to have improved performance on the LAN quite a bit, please follow up in the newsgroup if you were experiencing performance problems with news and let us know how it’s working now. -Dane

Wed Jun 4 23:15:32 PDT 1997 — news.sonic.net (Ultra) will be down from 1:59am until 2:45am. I’ll be swapping the ethernet card, as well as performing other maintenance. See my post in sonic.help for more information. -Scott

Tue Jun 3 02:33:58 PDT 1997 — I’ll be rebooting the shell server (Bolt) at 3:30am. This is an opportunity to get the new Cheetah drive on the SCSI bus, so I’ll do that. Bolt will be back in action at 4:00am. -Scott