Month: October 2003

Tue Oct 7 12:39:18 PDT 2003 — Upgrade to “tin” didn’t go so well. Folks have been reporting problems with the new “tin”, so we have gone back to running the old version when one types “tin” (or “tin.old”). “tin.new” runs the new version.

Also, a reminder that almost all customer data is backed up in .snapshot directories — for instance, if you have a file in your .tin directory that you need restored, cd to .tin/.snapshot and select a backup.

We didn’t expect the new tin to be fraught with problems, and apologize for any trouble the upgrade may have caused. Please report tin problems in news:sonic.net. Thank you. -Scott

Mon Oct 6 11:58:27 PDT 2003 — Upgrade to “tin” newsreader on Shell. The shell server now sports the absolute latest version of “tin”. Our version of tin has a disabled mail check, as it doesn’t understand maildir, the new format of our mail spools. (If you don’t know what a shell server is, you can safely ignore this update.) -Scott

Mon Oct 6 14:31:38 PDT 2003 — Our new E-Mail anti-virus solution is currently being tested on one of our inbound MX servers. If the system proves to be stable under the real world load presented we will deploy it on the rest of our mail servers in a few days. It should be noted that at this time there is no way for a user to optionally bypass the new anti-virus software. Users will not be able to bypass the filtering on outbound email, but if there is demand, we will consider allowing users to disable inbound virus filtering on their accounts. -Kelsey

Fri Oct 3 23:13:32 PDT 2003 — Network Event: We experienced significant packet loss on our circuit to Equinix tonight due to a possible fiber cut in San Jose. After shutting down the link to prevent poor performance one of the core routers at one of our San Francisco POPs rebooted due to an apparent software bug. This, of course, confounded any problems caused by the other trouble. All services has been restored at this time, both the San Francisco POP at Focal and Equinix are at 100%. -Kelsey and Nathan