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System Maintenance

Update: Maintenance complete.

Tonight at 11:59pm we will be performing updates to several systems; Impacted customer facing services will include mail, member tools, ipv6 tunnels, customer hosting, and vpn services.  The maintenance should be completed within 2 hours. Thank you.

  • Dexter K – Sonic System Operations

Network outage San Francisco

Service was restored at 2:00pm PST.

 

We are currently troubleshooting a network outage for the Jasper Building at 45 Lansing in San Francisco. The issue is still being investigated and we will update this message once we have an ETR.

 

Michael

DDOS Affecting Popular Sites and Services, Including Twitter, Reddit and Spotify

A Massive denial of service attack on a Dyn, a large DNS service provider, has been affecting many large sites this morning.  This includes parts of Amazon’s infrastructure, Twitter, Reddit, Spotify along with many smaller properties.  This attack results in errors like “Server not found” or “Host not found” in web browsers and other applications.  For a more detailed account, please see https://www.wired.com/2016/10/internet-outage-ddos-dns-dyn/ or https://krebsonsecurity.com/2016/10/ddos-on-dyn-impacts-twitter-spotify-reddit/ and note, this affects more than just the East Coast.

System Maintenance

Update: This maintenance is complete.

On Wed, October 12th, beginning at 11:59pm we will be performing maintenance on sonic.com.  The maintenance is expected around 15 minutes, during which time access to sonic.com will be interrupted.

-Dexter K, Sonic System Operations

Northern California Legacy DSL Outage

Today, October 12, starting at 1:30pm, core equipment serving Legacy DSL experienced a failure. We are working to resolve service as quickly as possible and will provide updates as they become available.

Update(3:02pm): All services restored. This outage was caused by malicious BGP traffic from outside our network and we have taken steps to protect our network against any future attacks of this nature.

-Tomoc

System Maintenance

Update: Maintenance was completed at 2:30am.

Starting tonight at 11:59pm, SOC will be running system updates. The following services may experience brief interruptions:

  • Web hosting
  • IMAP/POP3/SMTP
  • IPv6 Tunnels

SOC

Core Network Voice Maintenance

Tonight, October 6th at midnight, we will be updating a piece of core voice equipment.  During this time we do not expect any interruption in voice services, though you may experience a brief pause in call completion. Estimated maintenance time is 2 hours.

-Network Engineering

 

Update: 12:23am Maintenance is completed.