Wed Jun 2 10:49:44 PDT 1999 — The news server was responding very slowly to new connections and we’ve restarted it. -Dane

Fri May 28 10:30:39 PDT 1999 — Thunder.sonic.net (Web Server for Multihomed sites) lost it’s mount point to the Network filer at about 10:15hrs this morning. A reboot fixed the problem, and there was no filesystem damage. – Eli

Tue May 25 04:54:28 PDT 1999 — Upon recommendation from the news admin handling our RemarQ newsfeed, we’ve upgraded our news server to INN 1.7.2. This should wring more performance out of our news server — we’ll be watch progress at www.sonic.net/ultrastat/ -Scott

Mon May 24 13:56:35 PDT 1999 — Some email to AOL has been bouncing with this error message: ‘CNAME lookup failed temporarily.’ As it turns out, AOL has so many mail hosts that responses to DNS queries were quite large — so large, our mail server was truncating them. We’ve applied a patch to our Qmail installations that corrects the problem. -Scott

Sat May 22 17:14:43 PDT 1999 — Sonic.net has started a SETI team – join us in searching for life beyond Earth! To join the Sonic.net SETI team, see the following URL:

setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/cgi?cmd=team_show&id=299

If you don’t already have the SETI@home client software, see the website at:

setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Wed May 19 14:44:34 PDT 1999 — We experienced hardware problems on the focal dialup gear this morning. This effected dialup numbers that ended with 9811 from approx. 11:30pm untill 9:00am this morning. A reboot of the troublesome gear was needed. Sorry for any problems this may have caused. – Steve

Sat May 15 17:41:57 PDT 1999 — UC Berkeley and the SETI project have launched an exciting collaborative computing effort that you may want to participate in. The SETI@home project harnesses the computing power of hundreds of thousands of Internet connected PCs to do data analysis on radio telescope information. The goal is to find life beyond Earth. The application runs as a screensaver on your PC or Mac, and you can watch a visual representation of the math that it’s doing. To participate, see the website at:

setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/

Sat May 15 13:25:05 PDT 1999 — Sonic.net has deployed a TCP.INT Email to FAX gateway serving Sonoma County. Areas served include Santa Rosa, Sebastopol, Rohnert Park, Cotati, Windsor, Forestville, Healdsburg and North Petaluma. To send a FAX, visit www.sonic.net/fax/.

Sat May 15 13:10:15 PDT 1999 — In order to improve news arrival time here, we’ve added a new feed from RemarQ Communities, formerly Supernews. RemarQ specializes in Usenet feeds and should be able to deliver a faster feed that the ones we’re currently getting from our peers and upstream backbones. This brings us to six concurrent feeds. -Dane

Thu May 13 12:33:57 PDT 1999 — We’ve upgraded the PacWest dialup pool to the latest versions of Livingston’s ComOs. This should reduce disconnects and V.90 compatibility issue. This will effect dialup numbers that end with 0174. Let us know if there are any problems by e-mailing support@sonic.net – Steve