Fri Dec 5 02:58:17 PST 2003 — Router Maintenance Update and More Kernel Upgrades: The router maintenance at Focal went more or less as planned. We encountered one issue with the new IOS release but we able to work around it. So far, so good. We hope this will restore stability in our network. We also continued our kernel upgrades on the remaining few hosts that had not already be upgraded. We did encounter some trouble here: sonic.sonic.net, or core administrative server and home to the member tools, had issues with it’s boot loader that required a couple of hours to resolve due to some other hardware related complications. Apologies for the lack of an update to the MOTD, but sonic is responsible for it’s distribution. -Kelsey and Nathan