Mon Jun 5 21:58:41 PDT 2000 — We’ve completed the migration of FTP data to the new Network Appliance network filer. The new NetApp F740, ‘freezer.sonic.net’ is to replace ‘fridge.sonic.net’ with 6x the speed, twice as much RAM and much more space. It’s scalable to 900 gigs of fully redundant RAID storage, so we’ve got a lot of room to grow. The fast new fiber channel arbitrated loop drives support multiple filer clustering for high availability.

We’ll be migrating mail, web and shell home directories in the next couple weeks to complete this project. The current schedule is to move mail and web data this coming Sunday morning, June 11th after around 1am.

‘fridge’ has served us very well, with amazing reliability and zero-downtime file-system expansion which has been a unique and wonderful solution for our growing storage needs. -Scott, Dane and Kelsey

Sat Jun 3 19:49:04 PDT 2000 — New Network Appliance migration. Tomorrow morning (June 4th) at 1am, the ftp volume will be read-only for approximately 10 minutes while we transfer the last of the data to the new NetApp. After that, we will be changing all ftp mount points over to the new NetApp. The migration should be finished by 1:30am. -Scott and Dane

Fri Jun 2 21:41:45 PDT 2000 — The Covad DSL backhaul issue was resolved from a performance standpoint at ~17:00hrs, and Covad’s engineers are still trying to determine what caused the problem. I waited to update the MOTD for that resolution, and at this point I will direct further updates to the sonic.dsl Newsgroup. — Eli

Fri Jun 2 16:06:34 PDT 2000 — Our Covad DSL back-haul circuit is seeing poor performance and we are currently talking with our vendors to resolve the issue as soon as possible. – Eli

Tue May 30 14:05:27 PDT 2000 — Thunder.sonic.net, our primary web server, detected an OS error and restarted a few minutes ago. Downtime was approximately three minutes. -Scott

Wed May 24 21:06:34 PDT 2000 — UUNet Security has finished their investigation, and our Shell Server is back to normal operation. The investigation took a lot of time/resources on UUNet’s part, but it paid off- UUNet has logs that will be essential to Law Enforcement, and we’ll be pursuing this matter. Shell services are only used by a small portion of our user base, but we are (naturally) upset by this event, and apologetic for the brief service interruption for our user base this afternoon. – Eli, and the Ops team at Sonic.net

Wed May 24 16:08:40 PDT 2000 — The denial of service attack has been filtered at the gateway, so the network is back to normal. However, while UUNet Security traces the source of the attack, the Shell Server (if you don’t know what this is it does not affect you) will be offline. – Eli, Scott

Wed May 24 15:34:55 PDT 2000 — We are currently under a denial of service attack and are in contact with our upstream providers to resolve the issues. The attack has forced us to reload our core router and we hope service restore as soon as possible. – Scott, Eli, Steve, Dave, and Kelsey

Wed May 24 15:17:37 PDT 2000 — Our T3 circuit to UUNet ‘flapped’ briefly a few minutes ago, causing routing problems and partial unreachability to the Internet for a few minutes. The circuit is up and functional now, we will continue to monitor status and advise. – Eli

Tue May 23 12:51:45 PDT 2000 — The pine fix only appears to work for the root user and not everyone else, so we’ll continue to work on this until its resolved. Its clearly generated only when you run pine, so most sonic.net users need not worry about the pine issue. -Dave