Mon Mar 16 15:50:04 PST 1998 — Our friends at HREF tools have setup a great resource for Sonic members. Our local Sonic newsgroups are a valuable resource for both new members and for those who are publishing on the Internet or just using the net. HREF has put together a search tool to make the entire set of groups full text searchable. This should help you find answers to any questions you have about your use of Sonic. developers.href.com/sonic/

Sun Mar 15 10:06:55 PST 1998 — Our news server has had a few troubles over the past week, most of them related to an upgrade of the INN server software. The news server is offline as of 10:00am Sunday, and will be back online within about 20 minutes. We’ve backed out of the INN upgrade, so this downtime is because of something else.

Sun Mar 1 12:32:54 PST 1998 — In the wake of Saturday’s front page Press Democrat article, some folks in our news:sonic.general newsgroup have expressed concerns about the integrity of their data on Sonic. I would like to point out that a) no one has broken into Sonic, and b) during these operations, we took the privacy of our members very seriously, and indeed, re-engineered our network to that end. Please visit news:sonic.general (thread: ‘The Cloverdale Kids’) for more discussion. -Scott

Sun Mar 1 12:30:27 PST 1998 — Brooks Fiber, our telephone company in San Jose, is currently working on a problem at our San Jose facility. The lines there are currently out of service — I’m working to get that resolved ASAP. Sorry about the inconvenience. -Scott

Wed Feb 25 09:35:04 PST 1998 — Between 4:30am and 5am this morning, we had some network problems which brought a number of terminal servers offline. It appears that the news server was at fault. Scott was covering the graveyard shift and took care of things. -Dane

Wed Feb 25 14:06:34 PST 1998 — Our news server was offline briefly when it’s networking started having timeout problems. A quick reboot brought it back online. -Dane

Sun Feb 22 12:02:56 PST 1998 — While bringing up a backup ISDN connection for a customer who’s been affected by a PacBell fiber cut, we’ve goofed up routing on nas21.sonic.net, one of our terminal servers. We’ll have it fixed up in a few minutes. This only affects PPP users who are connected via nas21. -Dane

Sun Feb 15 10:38:22 PST 1998 — MFS’s fiber has been repaired. An MFS contractor who was apparently digging to install additional capacity damaged a large number of circuits. During the outage, traffic on much of the west coast and parts of the rest of the world was running a bit slower than usual. -Dane

Sat Feb 14 15:25:09 PST 1998 — Fiber cut in San Jose. About 10am this morning, some fiber optic runs in San Jose were damaged — since then, routing has been ‘less than optimal.’ Apparently repairs have been ‘hindered by weather,’ but WorldCom continues to repair the fiber. -Scott

Sun Feb 8 19:10:51 PST 1998 — The Sonoma County Independent is currently polling for it’s annual reader’s choice awards. Be sure to pick up a copy at your local coffee shop or newsstand, and please do vote in the catagory ‘Best Internet Provider’. =) -Dane