Midcoast Internet Solutions
System
News & Notices
October 2000
- October 31, 2000 Our newest webserver for webhosting got it's
official start today. It is named drip.midcoast.com and we will be moving
domains hosted on latte and kona over to it. It is a very powerful new
machine with Redhat 7, kernel series 2.4, high quality IBM 7200rpm
hard drive, and an Athlon 850mhz processor. It is much more powerful
than it needs to be, but we don't want it to be outdated anytime soon. As
domains get moved over, wusage stats are added.
- October 30, 2000 7:30pm One of our T1s to the internet is not
working. We are working on it and will post more information when it is
available. These problems have been called in and the appropriate parties
are working on their repair. There were two problems. One was fixed within
an hour. The second was fixed at 2:00am when Verizon "tested"
the circuit.
- October 29, 2000 kona/free mailserver had trouble with people
checking mail. (It accepted mail fine though). At Noonish, I restarted
the appropriate software to fix that. No email was lost.
- October 27, 2000 Downtown Camden wireless customers have
had some performance trouble today. We have done some testing this morning
with our spectrum analyzer and didn't see anything unusual, so we are
replacing some equipment there right now, suspecting our amplifier is having
intermittent problems. Update 5:00pm. Replacing the amplifier fixed
the problem.
- October 19, 2000 1:30pm. Our Washington (845) and Liberty (589)
exchanges are out of service due to an extended power failure at both
locations. (The power failure is outlasting our UPSs in those two towns)
- October 19, 2000 7:00am. One of our T1s to the internet is not
working; we have reported this trouble to C&W and hope for a quick
fix. This would cause people not to be able to do many internet things
until it is fixed. 10:20am. The T1 is starting to work again and
things are functioning smoothly.10:49am Looks like it's down for a
couple more minutes. I presume it is C&W testing the lines. 10:55am
The T1 is fine now. They had to adjust a card in one of their routers in
Chicago to fix it.
- October 13, 2000 8:30am. The Damariscotta lincoln.midcoast.com
server is acting up. Some
customers are having trouble sending and receiving email from their @lincoln
email addresses. This has been fixed at 8:40am.
- October 12, 2000 9:00am. Some people can't get outside of the
midcoast this morning. This is due to one of our T1s going down. Sprint
has been notified and is working on it. If you dial in agian, it may work,
depending on which IP number you are assigned. Another option is the proxy
server, which bypasses the affected T1. To use it, put into your browser's
manual proxy server configuration: address: 10.0.0.3 port: 8080.
- October 9, 2000 1:40pm. Some people had trouble logging into
lincoln.midcoast.com for a few minutes this afternoon. We restarted some
software and it seems to be ok now.
- October 4, 2000 11:30am. We've received word that MyWay will
stop serving Midcoast in December. Myway is "restructuring" and
dropping thousands of small and medium size ISPs in favor of bigger ones.
Myway is the news service linked from our homepage.
- October 2, 2000 2:30pm. The virtual webserver machine
conchita has a SSL certificate that anyone on that machine can use
for secure transactions. Instead of using your domain name for the https
address, use conchita.midcoast.com/~username/ . Other servers will also be
getting their own SSL certificate in the near future. This is of no cost
to the virtual domain customer. This is handy for order forms or other
confidential parts of websites. (If you have a virtual domain and want to
know which server you are on, you can telnet to the domain and log in, and
the command prompt will say username@servername for your convenience.)
More details on how to utilize the SSL certificate will be in the next
newsletter for virtual domains, and will soon be online in the help pages.
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