Mail and Spam Filtering Slow Down.

Wed Dec 21 14:28:52 PST 2005 — Mail and Spam Filtering Slow Down. Emergency maintenance on one of our internal DNS servers has caused mail and spam filtering delays. In some cases mail may be passed to customer inboxes without having been passed through SpamAssassin. The DNS server should be restored to service shortly after a hardware swap is completed. -Augie and Kelsey

Widespread Broadlink outage.

Sun Dec 18 13:19:00 PST 2005 — Widespread Broadlink outage. Broadlink Wireless customers are currently experiencing intermittent network outages throughout much of Santa Rosa. Broadlink technicians are currently investigating, but no other services should be affected. -John F. and Tech Support

Update, Sun Dec 18 15:54:52 PST 2005, Broadlink’s troubles have been isolated to a wire splice which was having water intrusion issues. This splice has been replaced. This may resolve a number of intermittent issues that have caused troubles for Broadlink customers in the last few weeks. -Dane and Jason (@Broadlink)

Broadlink power failure effecting a single…

Sat Dec 17 11:28:21 PST 2005 — Broadlink power failure effecting a single tower. Broadlink is working to get a generator to the tower location in order to restore power. We currently have no ETR. -Tony, Kavan, and Broadlink.

Update: Sat Dec 17 14:08:41 PST 2005 — Service Restored. Broadlink reports that power and service have been fully restored.- John F

New Shell News.

Thu Dec 15 09:15:32 PST 2005 — New Shell News. On Wed, Dec 14, we swung the “shell.sonic.net” and “bolt.sonic.net” names over to the new shell host. We would appreciate reports in

news://news.sonic.net/sonic.net

…which can be reached with “rtin sonic.net” on the shell host.

Please note: If you don’t know what a shell host is, please disregard this notice. 🙂 -Scott

Holiday hours for Dec.

Thu Dec 15 20:00:57 PST 2005 — Holiday hours for Dec. 16. Our office will be closed tomorrow between 11:30a and 3:30p tomorrow for our annual Staff Holiday party, but will resume cheerful operations thereafter! -Eli

New Shell News.

Wed Dec 14 00:01:02 PST 2005 — New Shell News. On Wed, Dec 14, we will swing the “shell.sonic.net” and “bolt.sonic.net” names over to the new host. All that is left to do before the move is to get newshell an ip6 address and connect it to the 6bone. -Scott

New Shell News.

Mon Dec 12 11:56:54 PST 2005 — New Shell News. On Tue, Dec 13, we will swing the “shell.sonic.net” and “bolt.sonic.net” names over to the new host, after all requests in the sonic.net newsgroup have been handled. “oldshell.sonic.net” will point at the old shell host during our transition period. -Scott

Focal POP capacity issue.

Fri Dec 9 15:57:07 PST 2005 — Focal POP capacity issue. One of the dialup concentrators at our Focal POP has gone unresponsive. We have a technician en-route with spare gear, and ETR is approximately two hours. Until then, users dialing numbers ending in -9811 may experience busy signals due to a lack of capacity. As always, we have plenty of space at our other POPs. To find an alternate dial-up number, visit: www.sonic.net/popf/

Sorry for the inconvenience! -Nathan, Russ, Chris and Zeke

Update: Fri Dec 9 17:50:41 PST 2005 — All capacity at the Focal POP is back on-line. Sorry for the busy signals! -Nathan and Russ