Month: May 1999

Thunder.sonic.net (Web Server for Multihomed…

Fri May 28 10:30:39 PDT 1999 — Thunder.sonic.net (Web Server for Multihomed sites) lost it’s mount point to the Network filer at about 10:15hrs this morning. A reboot fixed the problem, and there was no filesystem damage. – Eli

Some email to AOL has been bouncing with this

Mon May 24 13:56:35 PDT 1999 — Some email to AOL has been bouncing with this error message: ‘CNAME lookup failed temporarily.’ As it turns out, AOL has so many mail hosts that responses to DNS queries were quite large — so large, our mail server was truncating them. We’ve applied a patch to our Qmail installations that corrects the problem. -Scott

We experienced hardware problems on the focal

Wed May 19 14:44:34 PDT 1999 — We experienced hardware problems on the focal dialup gear this morning. This effected dialup numbers that ended with 9811 from approx. 11:30pm untill 9:00am this morning. A reboot of the troublesome gear was needed. Sorry for any problems this may have caused. – Steve

UC Berkeley and the SETI project have…

Sat May 15 17:41:57 PDT 1999 — UC Berkeley and the SETI project have launched an exciting collaborative computing effort that you may want to participate in. The SETI@home project harnesses the computing power of hundreds of thousands of Internet connected PCs to do data analysis on radio telescope information. The goal is to find life beyond Earth. The application runs as a screensaver on your PC or Mac, and you can watch a visual representation of the math that it’s doing. To participate, see the website at:

setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

In order to improve news arrival time here,…

Sat May 15 13:10:15 PDT 1999 — In order to improve news arrival time here, we’ve added a new feed from RemarQ Communities, formerly Supernews. RemarQ specializes in Usenet feeds and should be able to deliver a faster feed that the ones we’re currently getting from our peers and upstream backbones. This brings us to six concurrent feeds. -Dane

We’ve upgraded the PacWest dialup pool to the

Thu May 13 12:33:57 PDT 1999 — We’ve upgraded the PacWest dialup pool to the latest versions of Livingston’s ComOs. This should reduce disconnects and V.90 compatibility issue. This will effect dialup numbers that end with 0174. Let us know if there are any problems by e-mailing support@sonic.net – Steve

Our Monday audit of the dial group found one…

Mon May 10 12:35:58 PDT 1999 — Our Monday audit of the dial group found one bad modem in the 1001 dial group and one in the 1003 group. The failure in the 1001 group was causing three rings until answer, so that would increase the amount of time users would wait for a connection. The failure in 1003 was causing an answer, and silence – this meant that an unlucky user who hit this unit would not get connected, and would have to retry. The 1001 group overflows to 1002, and 1002 overflows to 1003, so the dial and silence trouble could have affect customers calling any of these groups. Both of these troubles have been cleared now. -Dane