Midcoast Internet Solutions
System
News & Notices
December 1998
- December 29, 1998 Big News! Customers serviced from the
Rockland office can now dial into the network served by the Damariscotta
office. Customers serviced by the Dama office can now dial into the
network served by the Rockland office. To use this feature put your full
email address in, such as someone@lincoln.midcoast.com or
someone@midcoast.com, whichever your email address is. If this feature is
not important to you, you don't need to change a thing.
- December 23, 1998 The Owls Head radio tower now has a 1.5mbps
link to the Rockland repeater site. This should provide a nice little
speed increase to Rockland users, as well as provide redundancy for the T1
serving the Rockland modem-banks.
- December 23, 1998 The proxy server in Owls Head got a memory
upgrade, another hard-drive, and another ethernet card. This should make
the proxy server faster.
- December 21, 1998 We have added a 56k modem tips webpage
to our help section. A link to it is here.
- December 21, 1998 The Union POP equipment was moved this morning
for a short time to accomodate some construction that was taking place at
the POP location. This affected service for about an hour for the Union POP.
- December 19, 1998 At midnight, lincoln.midcoast.com will be shutdown for
about two minutes to facilitate a move across the room. This will affect logins and mail
services for the is period. Incoming mail will spool on another MIS computer.
- December 18, 1998 Six more V90 lines were added today.
A new modem server was also added to the mix. It's named
columbian.midcoast.com, and has 48 modems in it ready for our use.
- December 16, 1998 A problem was corrected with the 593-8000
numbers, and 8 more lines were added. This should provide better access.
Additional lines will be hooked up in the next few days.
- December 16, 1998 A couple of Union (785) modems have developed
problems. We will be going out to fix them at about noon. These were fixed
and tested OK.
- December 15, 1998 Many modem servers are scheduled for a reboot
at 11pm tonight, for people serviced from the Rockland office. This
will take about 2 minutes and will be done every six months or so,
whether they need it or not.
- December 10, 1998 Mail on midcoast.com is being queued for a
few minutes while we switch email over to another (bigger) hard drive.
This will provide more room for all your email Christmas cards and for
future use. Queueing mail instead of processing it during the copy
procedure ensures perfect mail integrity and no messages will be lost
during the copy. The server is NOT being shutdown to do this.
- December 10, 1998 20 New lines were activated in Damariscotta.
It was necessary to start a new hunt group. The number is 563 7330 and
supports up to 33600 connections.
- December 9, 1998 Email-Users: A large number of people are
leaving their mail on the server. It's getting full. If you use "Leave
Mail on Server", please uncheck it to remove all your messages from the
server occassionally. This will speed things up for you.
- December 8, 1998 The Union (785) POP was out for a short time
this afternoon due to a burned-out piece of equipment. This was replaced
and all the other equipment was inspected, and things were put back
online.
- December 8, 1998 The Help BBS area randomly destroyed itself
overnight, so I restored the old and installed a newer version of the BBS
software, which might prevent the same thing from happening again.
- December 7, 1998 The "Time Machine" for the Damariscotta users was repaired.
- December 6, 1998 The Damariscotta NOC will be getting maintenence
starting at Midnight Sunday. Routine cleaning and reorganization will affect
some modem connections. A 10 minute mail and login blackout will occur
when the main server is shutdown for cleaning. All mail will be spooled.
- December 4, 1998
Have you seen the new MIS
Web Cam Page?
- December 4, 1998 The Damariscotta Office won the Chamber
of Commerce Xmas Window Display Contest. Be sure to swing by some time to
take a peek. (hint: it is better at night!)
- December 2, 1998 8:00pm. The 11th number in the 596-2410 has
some Bell Atlantic ISDN configuration problems. Upon making sure it was a
BA problem, we called them immediately and asked for it to be busied or
removed from the hunt group till they fix it.
- December 2, 1998 5:00pm. A faulty line on the 596-2430 number
was unhooked. This had been causing some people to have dificulty
negotiating a connection on that number at peak times.
- December 1, 1998 2:00pm. Washington's modem server was
renumbered. This should prove to be more reliable and perhaps slightly
faster.
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