Thu Feb 24 17:35:34 PST 2000 — The MOTD Archiver is back online. We have a complete record of every MOTD entry dating back as far back as Thu Jan 16 10:13:25 PST 1997. You can view the MOTD archive at www.sonic.net/info/motd-archive/ – Steve

Thu Feb 24 03:58:00 PST 2000 — The flash upgrade of the XXX-1003 and XXX-9811 dialup groups has been completed successfully. This new version of the Total-Control firmware will increase reliability on both dialup groups. Let us know ASAP if you experience an increase in connectivity issues on either of the XXX-9811 or XXX-1003 dialup groups. Also if you were using our test number you should switch back to the 522-1003 number now. – Steve

Wed Feb 23 11:49:37 PST 2000 — Thursday at 1:00am I will be flash upgrading the Total-Control dialup gear to the latest firmware. After testing this version of the firmware we have decided it is stable enough for our production machines. During this flash upgrade it may require that we reboot the gear a few times. This will affect the 707-522-1003 and the XXX-9811 Dialup groups. After the upgrade we should see much better performance on these lines. – Steve

Wed Feb 23 18:16:05 PST 2000 — While having broke the entire network with with a few quick keystrokes, Eli and I did manage to accomplish some good. Some of you may have noticed the slight 3 to 5 percent packet loss over PacBell dsl links. We discovered that the RedBack SMS had not properly auto negotiated a full duplex 100MB Ethernet link to the core switch. After forcing the link to 100MB full duplex there is no more packet loss. – Kelsey and Eli

Wed Feb 23 17:39:40 PST 2000 — A configuration snafu on our core switch knocked fridge, our NetApp file-server, off of the net for 3 minutes. All web, ftp, and email is stored on this server and was briefly unavailable. – Kelsey

Fri Feb 18 16:34:25 PST 2000 — We had to perform unexpected maintenance on prog-relay.sonic.net today. It bounced email with ‘user unknown’ errors while it was off-line. This only would have affected a small number of customers. – Kelsey and Eli

Fri Feb 18 14:55:16 PST 2000 — One of our pop3 servers had problems authenticating users, I restarted the authentication service and all seems to be fine. This would have caused about 10 minutes of ‘Invalid Password’ messages while checking mail. – Steve

Wed Feb 16 09:48:59 PST 2000 — We are testing new V.90 firm ware on our nas24.sonic.net dialup gear. We need a few people to test this out for us. If you currently dial into our 707-522-1003 modem pool and would like to help us out a little, you are welcomed to test out the new gear the dialup number is 707-521-2179. You should check with your operator to make sure this is a local non-toll call for you and Sonic.net is not responsible for any toll charges that may occur. -Steve and Dave

Wed Feb 16 15:43:07 PST 2000 — The multihome member tool is back online. We were integrating the web load balancing into the tool when it broke and it took quite a bit of time and effort to work around the problems encountered. – Kelsey

Mon Feb 14 15:56:56 PST 2000 — We had minor packet loss on our T3 to UUNET this afternoon. UUNET has reset their CSU/DSU on their end and the packet loss has subsided. -Dave