Mon May 8 12:17:38 PDT 2000 — Our shell server, bolt.sonic.net ran short on resources, and is currently returning some segmentation faults. We are currently working to kill off some old ‘stuck’ processes to clear resources. We will put together a watchdog that kills processes which are more than a day or two old, as they don’t need to clutter up the system for months. -Dane and Scott

Sun May 7 05:35:21 PDT 2000 — This morning at about 5:00am, our main web server, Thunder, detected a problem with its operating system and rebooted. Unfortunately, the web server program did not start after the reboot. Our paging system detected this, woke us up, and we fixed it. Downtime was approximately 15 minutes. We are investigating ways to assure that the web server program starts properly after a reboot. -Scott

Fri May 5 09:27:51 PDT 2000 — The filtering that we put in place for the ILOVEYOU virus caught over 1,200 copies of the virus and its mutations overnight. Just a reminder, always be cautious of unexpected email attachments, especially executable programs or scripts. -Kelsey

Thu May 4 12:57:01 PDT 2000 — We now have filtering in place for the ILOVEYOU virus now. It’s based on a unique string in the virus code. While we were at it, we put filtering in place for a couple of the older email viruses too. So far we’ve caught about a dozen copies. -Kelsey

Thu May 4 10:53:28 PDT 2000 — There is a nasty new virus propagating through the net right now called the ‘ILOVEYOU’ virus. It has already caused a great deal of trouble. We are working on filtering the virus at our mail servers. For more information take a look at CNN’s report here www.cnn.com/2000/TECH/computing/05/04/iloveyou/index.html — Kelsey and Eli

Wed May 3 11:58:32 PDT 2000 — We received some reports of delayed outbound email delivery and upon investigation found that marine.sonic.net was running on a saturated 10Mbit Ethernet card. We took marine off line and installed a new 100Mbit card. The mail queue is currently around 19,000 messages and falling. -Scott, Eli, and Kelsey

Sat Apr 29 19:19:51 PDT 2000 — We’re in the last couple days of our Pacific Bell DSL promotion. See the MOTD entry dated Fri Mar 3 for the details, or review www.sonic.net/sales/dsl/.

Sat Apr 29 02:52:23 PDT 2000 — Sonic.net is pleased to announce a new partnership with Broadlink Communications, and the launch of an exciting new high speed Internet access product. Together, we’ve brought Wireless DSL to Sonoma County, and it’s available for installation now!

Wireless DSL reaches far beyond conventional copper wire based DSL, and brings broadband Internet access to many areas where high speed DSL service has been unavailable.

All you need to get started is a Sonic.net account, which starts at $18.95 per month, and a Broadlink Wireless DSL connection, starting at $39.00 per month. Broadlink installation costs $198.00.

For information, see www.sonic.net/dsl/

— Dane Jasper Sonic.net, Inc. (707)522-1000 mailto:dane@sonic.net www.sonic.net/

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Wed Apr 26 16:43:18 PDT 2000 — We have turned load-balancing back on for www.sonic.net and have resolved the issues with the RealMedia server. See news:sonic.general and the updated RealMedia FAQ at www.sonic.net/faq/addon/ra.shtml for more information. -Kelsey

Tue Apr 25 09:27:01 PDT 2000 — ‘Wireless DSL’ (where DSL is ‘Digital Subscriber Link’ instead of ‘Line’) is coming soon. We are not yet taking orders, and we don’t have full sales information available. Keep an eye on the MOTD for updates as soon as we have them. -Dane