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News & Notices

March 1999

• March 30, 1999 A correction was made to the time machine, one of the modem servers, grinder, was having it's time calculated twice. The effects of this change will be in tomorrow's time report.
• March 29, 1999 Traffic to the GWI network was blocked due to a configuration change on the GWI end of the peering connection. Corrections have been made to the routing and traffic is returning to normal. Mail running between GWI and MIS will have been delayed this am, but should be despooled by this afternoon.
• March 26, 1999 11am: Jacob and Jason replaced an access point and wiring at the courthouse today. Some Rockland wireless users were affected while this upgrade took place.
• March 26, 1999 Noon: The Time Machine on lincoln was not including time from the new Wiscasset server, buzzbuzzbuzz.midcoast.com. This has been corrected and the program is recompiling the time data.
• March 25, 1999 3:30 pm: A problem with the old Washington POP (845-2080) was corrected, as the 56k went down. We encourage Washington users to use the new number - 845-3050.
• March 23, 1999 8:37 pm: The new Washington POP is ready for use. The number is 845-3050 and supports 33.6 connections.
• March 22, 1999 Wiscasset is without power. A "really big tree" fell across Route 1 and took out power and telco lines. It may be quite a spell before services are restored. Our data circuit comes from Damariscotta, so it will be running as soon as there is power, but the dialin lines come from the Bath side, so restoring services will depend on Bell fixing those line. Update 6:30pm: Power is restored to the Wiscasset POP.
• March 22, 1999 Liberty has had no power all morning. Our Liberty 589 exchange POP functioned about 3 hours on battery backup power and stopped at 10:51am. Power returned at 1:17pm. Washington residents lost power but we have a massive battery backup there and our equipment continued to run throught the day.
• March 22, 1999 9:00am A major power outage has occured in the Damariscotta area. The Damariscotta NOC is now on generator power.Update Power was restored at 10:55am, but we'll let the generator run for a while.. :^)
• March 21, 1999 Trouble with 593-8000 has been reported to our Bell Atlantic reps. Some people are getting a, "This number is not in service" message, which is an obvious screwup of Bell Atlantic. We are very unhappy with their handling of the problem. Update: This was corrected by BA on Monday Morning.
• March 19, 1999 3:00pm : Jason and Jason went to Washington and installed two carloads of gear for the new POP. Northand Telephone was finishing the Bell Atlantic T1 which connects Owls Head and Washington. Much to our dismay, Northland had not finished the incoming phone lines. Hopefully they will get that done Monday. We're ready.
• March 17, 1999 11:00am : The hub in Liberty had to be shut down and restarted. This affected logins for a few minutes.
• March 17, 1999 12:10am : All the Rockland modems will be rebooted. This will take about 1 minute.
• March 16, 1999: Static IP users with 204.117.x.x numbers will be given new ones in the morning. Till then you should use our Proxy Server. Instructions are here.
• March 16, 1999: noon-ish, modem servers were adjusted for the new settings caused by loss of 204.117.x.x numbers. This affected logins for about 20 minutes. Also a router was rebooted at about 2pm, which would have affected many things for about 20 minutes.
• March 16, 1999: The 204.117.57.2 number no longer works as a nameserver. Use 10.0.0.1 instead. Instructions on how to change this were provided about a year or two ago roughly. If you need assistance, visit the help topics webpage or call our tech support.
• March 16, 1999: MIS heard from Bell Atlantic today regarding Washington. CO testing will take place today, and then it's up to Northland to finish the install. This should only be a couple of days.
• March 15, 1999: MIS contacted our Bell Atlantic rep again today. She will call the person at Bell Atlantic atleast twice each day till it's done. This is childish and a waste of our time.
• March 14, 1999: MIS contacted our Bell Atlantic rep again today. She said that the person wouldn't expedite the Washington install, so it's being unloaded onto someone else at Bell Atlantic.
• March 11, 1999: MIS has contacted Bell Atlantic reps approximately twice each day, and have no word yet on the Washington install. We want details, and can't get them from Bell Atlantic. We will be contacting Washington customers in the next day or two by email and issuing a partial refund, because Washington is simply messed up by the phone companies and not working anywhere near the level which we want it to. This was supposed to by complete February 20, and the utilities have let us down.
• March 10, 1999: MIS staff took turns at the 1999 Chamber of Commerces' Business Showcase. We've got a photo here that was on the homepage for a while on March 10. The Business Showcase was an excellent opportunity to say hello to our customers and friends, in person.
• March 9, 1999: 11:45PM A problem authenticating on the second modem server (mug) on our new lines was corrected.
• March 8, 1999: 236-4098 is not work properly due to errors on the part of Bell Atlantic. We have notified them and expect a fix shortly. In the mean time, we are extremely thankful for the new Camden number which is on our homepage. Update: Bell Atlantic has fixed it.
• March 8, 1999: The new v90 lines were increased from 46 to 92 available incoming lines. Their numbers are as follows: 593-9332, 338-8667, 236-2809, 832-5779.
• March 8, 1999: Additional problems with incoming mail were solved by Sunday night. Some sites external to MIS were having difficulty connecting to or finding MIS to deliver the mail. All systems are operating normally at this time.
• March 7, 1999: My sincere apologies for having blinking text on our main webpage. These new numbers are very important, and I'd like to see lots of people using them if they can do so (call them if they are local calls only, of course).
• March 6, 1999: The name-server software on lincoln was malfunctioning during the day Saturday. Name lookups and some ,mail services were troublesome during this time. It was successfully restarted at approx 11pm. Thanks you to the folks that used the trouble ticket form, the feedback helped to quickly track down the problem and effect a repair.
• March 5, 1999: Bell Atlantic has correctly programmed in the numbers for our new lines. They are as follows: 593-9332 for calls local to Rockland. For calls local to Belfast use: 338-8667. For calls local to Camden use: 236-2809. For calls local to Waldoboro use: 832-5779. This represents 46 lines hooked up. An additional 46 lines (for a total of 92 new lines) will be hooked up either today or Monday.
• March 4, 1999: Bell Atlantic hooked up lots of new lines today for Rockland, Camden, Belfast, and Waldoboro, but the numbers are not programmed in right. We'll keep you posted. This is progress.(!really!)
• March 4, 1999: We have permanent wireless internet at the Samoset. We will be providing access at the chambers' Business Showcase for a number of businesses next Wednesday.
• March 3, 1999: 16:00 The mailspinner program on free.midcoast.com was being worked on and was unresponsive for about 30 minutes.
• March 3, 1999: Washington: CMP did their work yesterday on schedule, and Northland installed the necessary wiring for the phone service. We'll keep you posted with regards to exact status.
• March 3, 1999: Belfast had one line out of service causing a ring-no -answer. It was fixed by 1 pm today.
• March 2, 1999: Wiscasset is now running on the new POP systems. Please use the trouble ticket form to report any problems. More info about the Wiscasset move is on a web page. Click here!
• March 1, 1999: Belfast just had 10 more modems activated this evening. Please let us know if you encounter any problems by filling out a trouble ticket.
• March 1, 1999: The Rockland office has moved to the new Oak Street location (yeah!). Unfortunately, our voice phone service had not been moved successfully by Bell Atlantic, and we were without incoming voice phone service. This was corrected by 11am.

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