Month: May 2001

Sun May 6 03:21:58 PDT 2001 — Night Operations: Update. We ran into a few problems tonight. First, we had to postpone the updates to sonic.sonic.net until next week due to unexpected problems with some software licenses. Second, the replacement MSM failed in the switch the same way that the original one did. This indicates that the troubleshooting that we had done with our vendor incorrectly identified the cause of the failures. The switch was off-line for around 5 minutes while we restored it’s configuration. -Kelsey and Scott.

Fri May 4 16:59:10 PDT 2001 — Night Operations scheduled for Sunday May 6th a 1:00am. We will be working on our core administrative server, sonic.sonic.net, in order to prepare for some pending updates to our DNS servers. Normal network operations should not be affected by any of the work that we do on sonic. We will be also replacing the bad MSM in the ExtremNetworks BlackDiamond 6808 switch with a new MSM. Once the new MSM in installed and synced with the primary we will reboot the switch, an operation which only takes about 120 seconds. If the reboot fails we are already well versed in restoring the BlackDiamond’s configuration and will have the switch back online with the current MSM in less than 10 minutes. -The Ops Team.

Thu May 3 10:54:40 PDT 2001 — The night operations went well, the maximum down time was approximately 1 minute while the routing tables converged. -Steve and Scott.

Tue May 1 13:23:22 PDT 2001 — Night Operations scheduled for Thursday May 3 at 2:00am. We will be moving a few PtP T1 circuits off of one channelized T3 to another. This will cause a temporary outage of service in the Sebastopol and Napa areas and also for users dialing into our PacWest pop (numbers ending with 0174). In the case of a prolonged outage you can dialup up via our Focal pop. To find a backup Focal number please see our pop finder at www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/pops.pl Thanks. -Steve

Update: PacBell has moved the scheduled time for this event to 1:00am -Steve and Scott