DSL Reverse DNS Tool RFC 2181 Compliance.

Fri Nov 4 09:43:06 PST 2005 — DSL Reverse DNS Tool RFC 2181 Compliance. We’ve updated the DSL Reverse DNS Tools too support the configuration and management of multiple PTR records per IP as required by RFC 2181. -Kelsey and Chris

News cluster migration.

Thu Nov 3 11:59:40 PST 2005 — News cluster migration. News.sonic.net will be migrated to the new cluster Monday morning giving it a little more than a full weeks worth of news on it’s spools. This migration should not adversely affect the usage of news.sonic.net however, as mentioned in the early MOTD, customers may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to groups if their news client doesn’t show new news. The old server will be available for a short time as oldnews.sonic.net. For more information please see news://news.sonic.net/sonic.net -Kelsey

Network Disturbance.

Wed Nov 2 18:51:00 PST 2005 — Network Disturbance. We are currently experiencing network instability. We have not yet isolated the source of the trouble isolated but hope to have it identified and resolved shortly. -Kelsey, Nathan and Matt

Update: Wed Nov 2 18:57:41 — The source of the trouble was isolated as one of our redundant MPLS circuits. It was been disabled and all services have been restored. -Kelsey, Nathan and Matt

New News Cluster.

Fri Oct 28 10:22:20 PDT 2005 — New News Cluster. Our new news cluster will be put into service early next week. It is a massive upgrade from the existing news.sonic.net, built on a total of six AMD Opteron servers with nearly 30 Terabyte of local spool storage on over 90 SCSI and SATA disks. In addition to the local spools, the news reader servers have full access to a commercial news provider to ensure full completion. For more details on the new news cluster’s hardware and configuration please see news://news.sonic.net/sonic.net

An brief history of our local news servers can be found in the following MOTD entries. Every disk in the new spool servers is larger than the complete capacity of the current news server.

www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/motd2.pl?print:19970222045907 www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/motd2.pl?print:19970215135855 www.sonic.net/cgi-bin/motd2.pl?print:19991122172425

Shortly after the new news cluster has been promoted to handle news.sonic.net, access to newscene.sonic.net will be discontinued. We also expect to discontinue access to supernews.sonic.net in the near future but do not yet have a firm date set.

While we have tried to keep article numbering matched on the new cluster you may need to unsubscribe and resubscribe to get the correct list of articles from the server. This should not be a problem if you only read sonic.*, ba.* or sonoma.* where the full archives have been migrated from the old server.

Special thanks is due to Joe Greco for all his help with the turn up of the new cluster. -Kelsey and Nathan

DSL outage update.

Wed Oct 26 12:49:37 PDT 2005 — DSL outage update. Service has been restored to most subscribers in the Santa Rosa area. Sync-no-surf persists in Mountain View. ASI reports similar outages at service centers throughout the greater Bay Area. We have no ETR at this time. -John F and Tech Support

Partial DSL outage.

Wed Oct 26 11:13:38 PDT 2005 — Partial DSL outage. We are receiving reports of sync-no-surf outages affecting parts of Santa Rosa and Mountain View. Not all customers are affected. We are in contact with SBC and are working on a resolution. -Support

System maintenance.

Tue Oct 18 10:55:17 PDT 2005 — System maintenance. At 12:01 AM Wednesday, Oct 19, we will be rebooting the systems that serve as the head-end of our Hotspot wireless network. DSL customers hosting Hotspots will experience approximately 5 minutes of downtime.

News server issues.

Tue Oct 18 09:21:49 PDT 2005 — News server issues. Last night news feeds to our local news server, news.sonic.net, ran into some issues and stopped. We are currently back-feeding articles to the server. Hopefully little, if any news will be lost. -Kelsey