Author: admin

Fri Apr 26 17:30:13 PDT 2002 — We have updated the look and feel of our some of our membertools to make them cleaner and easier to use. Most importantly, we’ve enabled Mailbox and DialUp Add-on account access to the member tools. These accounts can now use the appropriate account management tools, including SpamAssassin. -Kelsey, Nathan, Chris M. and John F.

Thu Apr 25 10:08:40 PDT 2002 — SpamAssassin has been upgraded to the latest stable version, 2.20. There have been a number of small rule set changes, fixes and additions and the rule scoring has been improved as well. This was a seamless upgrade and did not adversely affect any users. For more information about SpamAssassin see www.spamassassin.org and our local AntiSpam newsgroup news://news.sonic.net/sonic.antispam To turn SpamAssassin on for you account, please see the SpamCan member tool at sonic.sonic.net/membertools/.

Please note that mailbox and dialup add-on accounts cannot access the Member Tools to turn SpamAssassin on at this time. However, our support department can turn on SpamAssassin manually for these users. We are in the final testing phase of a complete rewrite of the tools which will enable mailbox and dialup add-on accounts to access the appropriate tools and expect to have them ready by early next week. -Kelsey

Thu Apr 25 09:00:36 PDT 2002 — WorldCom/UUNet network instabilities. UUNet reports a problem in their global network causing routing instabilities throughout their backbone. This problem is affecting a large part of the Internet in the United States. It will cause intermittent connectivity problems until UUNet is able to resolve the issue. In the mean time, Sonic.net’s redundant backbone Internet connection with Cable & Wireless will continue to serve non-UUNet connected Internet space. -Matt and Steve

Thu Apr 25 16:12:01 PDT 2002 — Sonic.net is proud to announce the addition of the .US top level domain (TLD) to our list of supported domain names.

Real time registrations for this exciting new TLD are being processed now. This new name-space is likely to get crowded, so if you’ve got a good name you are interested in, act quickly to secure it.

Also, to celebrate the release of .US, Sonic.net is offering 2 FREE years of domain registration, a $50.00 value, when you sign up for multihomed website hosting for any newly registered domain. This special offer is available for all .us, .com, .net, .org, .info and .biz domain names.

To secure your .US domain name, visit our domain tool at: sonic.sonic.net/members/domain_tool/

Update: We apologize for mangled MOTD, a software bug caused the format to get destroyed.

Thu Apr 25 15:32:23 PDT 2002 — Mail Authentication Failures: We just had an unusual hiccup with our POP3 servers. Starting at 15:13 for approximately 10 minutes we dropped a large portion of all POP3 connections due to authentication failures. The problem resolved itself before were able to track down the source. We are continuing to track down the cause of the failures so we can prevent it from occurring again. -Kelsey, Nathan, Russ, Matt and Steve

Fri Apr 19 23:25:55 PDT 2002 — The new SBC Pacific Bell phone book is likely to hit your porch shortly. Be sure to check out the new Sonic.net index tab advertisement in the Internet Guide section. It’s big, full color and card stock, and you can’t miss it. Tell a friend! -Dane

Fri Apr 19 23:23:31 PDT 2002 — C&W bandwidth upgrade from 15Mbps to 45Mbps (full T3). We’re planning to add 50% more bandwidth to our network connections on on either Monday or Tuesday morning. We’ll be making the change between six and eight AM, and during the change there is likely to be a brief slowdown as routes re-converge. -Ops staff

Wed Apr 17 14:08:56 PDT 2002 — Emergency maintenance on Broadlink wireless network. Broadlink will be performing maintenance on the backhaul serving the Rincon Valley tower site at 2:15pm today. This will interrupt service to Broadlink customers on the North East side of Santa Rosa. Maintenance is expected to take 10-15 minutes. -Broadlink and Sonic.net

Tue Apr 16 08:42:18 PDT 2002 — Even more issues with UUNet. Early this morning, their upstream router (the new one we migrated to last night) stopped ‘listening’ to our route announcements, making for some highly sub-optimal routing and poor performance. This has been repaired, and we’re watching these guys like hawks. – Eli, Matt

Mon Apr 15 22:56:07 PDT 2002 — UUNet migrated us to an alternate Cisco GSR 12000 in their SFO hub just now, and it took a little less than five minutes for the circuit to come up and all the BGP feeds to converge. We’re hoping this brings an end to this trouble, but we’ll be monitoring the circuit pro-actively tonight to confirm this.

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– Eli, Nathan, Matt.