Midcoast Internet Solutions

System News & Notices

September 2001

• September 26, 2001 Verizon is still working on fixing the T1 to Camden. Meanwhile, a falled tree on Molynoux road has taken out power to Ragged Mountain - the backup link for downtown Camden wireless. The power has been fixed, and someone is going up the mountain to check our equipment.
• September 25, 2001 11am Some wireless users in Camden are having trouble. This is due to a T1 problem most likely in Owls Head. We are working on it now. Verizon will be working on it. In the mean time, we have rerouted traffic via Ragged Mountain until it is fixed.
• September 18, 2001 Windows NT / 2000 users should check out this. W32.nimda.a.mm Worm It spreads via improperly secured or updated Windows 95 / 98 / ME / NT / 2000 computers and via attachements. Several MIS customers have already been infected and our logfiles are showing a great deal of attempts at our servers from all over the internet. MIS does not use Windows servers, so we are not vulnerable, but customers owned or maintained equipment might be. This is bigger than code red. More news is here.
• September 16, 2001 9:50pm - 11:30pm . Grounds.midcoast.com, which had been having trouble, was diagnosed with hardware trouble. We replaced the machine, and also put a newer version of Linux on it as well. Traffic graphs and non-essential software on grounds will be restored during the business day.
• September 15, 2001 3:45pm. Grounds.midcoast.com was fixed. This is the computer that controls all the traffic for our wireless network as well as Union and some of our dialup numbers. This had been misbehaving for an hour or so this afternoon and caused some people to not be able to get onto the internet.
• September 12, 2001 Wusage, our reporting software for virtual domain customers, is in the process of being upgraded. If you are a virtual domain customer and try to get to www.yourdomain.com/wusage, can't get there, and it was working before, try www.yourdomain.com:2396 . The username is the same name you use to FTP into the server. The password is available from MIS staff. (please email help@midcoast.com with the pertinent information needed or call 594-8277)
• September 11, 2001 This afternoon people using the 563-8999 number in Damariscotta and Lincolville DSL had trouble. This was due to a problem with one of the T1s going into Damariscotta. We have redirected traffic over the other T1 and things are working again while we investigate.
• September 2, 2001 5:00pm - 7:00pm. Power was out on Benner Hill in Rockland. This caused people who feed their wireless from this tower to be out of service during this time. The outage outlasted our UPS there. People affected would be Union dialup service 785-6622 and wireless, Matinicus, Metinic, Westport, and people who connect to the Benner Hill tower.
• September 2, 2001 Some people in Camden are having wireless trouble. (Others are fine). We're aware of it and working on it, and will post details when we can. Sept 4, 2001, most people are fixed and running well.

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