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( Updated 02/09/2006 09:08:35 )

Time Service Dept.,
U.S. Naval Observatory,
Washington, DC

Feb 9, 2006

INITIAL NOTIFY : Sprint Dedicated IP Scheduled Event : seq 21405

ACTIVITY START TARGET (local time): 0:00 EST 27-FEB-2006
ACTIVITY START TARGET (GMT): 05:00 GMT 27-FEB-2006
ACTIVITY TARGET DURATION: 2 Hours
PURPOSE: Software Upgrade


CUSTOMER IMPACT: Minimal, End Users should not be affected

Feb 3, 2006

Worm bomb hits today

The Kama Sutra worm detonates today, and in case you've been on vacation or haven't had time to get the scoop, the worm promises to destroy Windows PC files on the third Friday of every month starting February 3. While there's been two weeks of time to prepare and hopefully protect systems, understanding what this malicious worm wants to do and how it goes about doing it can prove useful in fighting off future malicious threats. It not only overwrites files, but it can disable all those great security protection applications you've laid in place.

For more on the Kama Sutra worm: Read this article at TechWeb

January 2, 2006
WeirNet offices will be closed on Monday January 2nd, in observance of the New Years holiday. If you have a special need for support during this period, plase contact the office at 304 794-0000 to arrange.

December 26, 2004
WeirNet offices will be closed on Monday December 26th, in observance of the Christmas holiday. If you have a special need for support during this period, plase contact the office at 304 794-0000 to arrange.

Nov 24 & 25, 2005

WeirNet offices will be closed in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will reopen on Monday, November 28 at 9 am. If you have a special need for support during this period, plase contact the office at 304 794-0000 to arrange.

May 25, 2005

WeirNet's offices will be closed on Monday May 30, 2005 in observance of Memorial Day. If you have a special need for support during this period, plase contact the office at 304 794-0000 to arrange.

March 25, 2005

WeirNet offices will be closed on Friday March 25th, in observance of Good Friday.

March 2, 2005

The WeirNet Offices will be making network changes that may briefly cause network disruption. If you have any question about this proceed please do not hesitate to call our offices.

Febuary 21, 2005

All of us at WeirNet appreciate the opportunity to provide you with quality data networking solutions. To ensure the continued reliability of your network services we will be performing network maintenance.

PURPOSE: Software Reload
ACTIVITY START TARGET (local time): 2:01 EST 21-FEB-2005
ACTIVITY TARGET DURATION: 30 Minutes

If you have any question or concerns please feel free to contact our offices at 794-0000.

Febuary 11-13, 2005

The WeirNet Offices will be making network changes that may briefly cause network disruption. If you have any question about this proceed please do not hesitate to call our offices.

January 19, 2005

AT&T Network Engineers will be performing a planned maintenance on St. Louis Access Router 14. The work will be performed on 1/19/2005, during the maintenance window of 12:00AM-6:00AM, local time. AT&T's goal is to successfully complete the task and restore service within the stated time frame.

Although we expect the downtime to be minimal, we ask that you plan accordingly due to possible unforeseen occurrences during the maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience that you may experience.

If you have any questions or concerns please contact the WeirNet office at 794-0000.

December 31, 2004

Offices will be closed in observance of the New Year holiday beginning Fri, Dec 31. WeirNet will resume normal hours Mon, Jan 3.

December 24, 2004

WeirNet offices will be closing at 12pm on Friday December 24th, in observance of the Christmas holiday.

November 25-26, 2004

WeirNet offices will be closed in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will reopen on Monday, November 29 at 9 am.

Sat September 18, 2004

Upgrade to servers and routers. Intermittent service interruptions are possible throughout the day. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Monday, September 6, 2004

WeirNet's offices will be closed on Monday, September 6, in observance of Labor Day.

May 25, 2004

WeirNet's offices will be closed on Monday May 31, 2004 in observance of Memorial Day. If you have a special need for support during this period, plase contact the office at 304 794-0000 to arrange.

April 18, 2004

Effective this Saturday, WeirNet will be on its Summer Hours schedule. There will be no scheduled office hours on Saturday. If you have a special need for support outside of normal hours, plase contact the office at 304 794-0000 to arrange.

April 10, 2004

Offices will be closed Apr 10th in observance of the Easter holiday.

Wed Apr 7 06:30 EDT 2004

Scheduled maintenance on 794-0002 dial-in number.

January 18, 2004,

Yet another mass-mailing worm, Bagela has been discovered. See also: How to protect yourself from viruses/worms.

Jan 15, 2004

Server upgrades begin. Temporary outages of various services will occur. Thursday schedule is email (in): POP3; Friday, more email (out) SMTP and web hosting, other outages through the weekend as we migrate into upgraded services. We apologize for any inconvenience. If you have any questions, please contact us.

Jan 14, 2004

WeirNet bringing another backbone connection online from 10:00AM until noon. You may notice a slowdown or intermittent service on web access between those times as we reconfigure routers and bring the additional bandwidth online. We apologize for the inconvenience.

Dec 31, 2003

Offices will be closed in observance of the New Year holiday beginning Wed, Dec 31, 12 noon. Normal hours resume Fri, Jan 2.

Wed Dec 24 16:39:46 EST 2003

New news server online. This server has completion rates in the high 90s and 7-10 day retention on multi-part binaries. You will need to reload the newsgroup list as it has changed slightly; however, we continue to offer about 30,000 groups. If there are any newsgroups which you have been reading which are now missing, please let us know and we will get them added as soon as possible.

Dec 24, 2003

Offices will be closed in observance of the Christmas holiday beginning Wed, Dec 24, 12 noon. Normal hours resume on Sat, Dec 27.

Sep 1

Offices will be closed in observance of the Labor Day

Thu Aug 28 22:00 EDT 2003

Upgrade tertiary & secondary routers. Approx. 30 min. outage affecting only several T-1's.

Mon, Aug 11

News server upgrades. The server will be down intermittantly for the next 24 to 36 hours. We apologize for the lack of advance notice.

Jul 4-5

Offices will be closed in observance of the Independence Day holiday.

Jun 7-8

Brief intermittant outages as we perform upgrades.

Mon May 26

Offices will be closed in observance of the Memorial Day holiday.

Apr 19

Offices will be closed Apr 19th in observance of the Easter holiday.

Feb 21-23, 2003

Server maintenance. Upgrades to web and mail and SSL servers this weekend. We will keep outages to minimum.

Feb 17

Offices will be closed early, due to heavy snow.

Feb 15, 11:00 EST 2003

Terminal server maintenance. There will be a brief interruption for some connections as we swap one our terminal servers for maintenance.

Jan 28, 2003

Smooth Sailing with .ORG Transition

Jan 26, 2003

Computer Worm Slows Worldwide Traffic

Jan 25, 14:30 EST 2003

Terminal server maintenance. There will be a brief interruption for some connections as we swap one our terminal servers for maintenance.

Jan 1

Offices will be closed Jan 1 in observance of the New Year holiday.

Dec 24 & 25

Offices will be closed Dec 24 & 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday.

Thu Nov 28 & Fri Nov 29

Offices will be closed in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.

Thur, Oct 3

Changing weekly reboot from Wednesday to Thursdays 07:00-07:15

Fri, Sep 27, 7AM

Router maintenance. Should be non-disruptive.

Aug 31 & Sep 2

Offices will be closed in observance of the Labor Day

Thu, Jul 26

New summer hours. 9am-5pm M-F, Sat 9am-1pm

Thu, Jul 4

Offices will be closed in observance of the Fourth of July holiday

Mon, May 27

Offices will be closed in observance of the Memorial Day holiday

Tue May 7

News server will be down for disk replacement sometime between 14:00-17:00. We expect this to last no longer than one hour.

Fri, Apr 26 to Sat Apr 27

WeirNet has moved . . . sort of:
In an effort to make all of our resources more accessable to you, our customers, we have combined our business office "upstairs" and our technical offices "downstairs". We're still at 3200 Main Street in Weirton, our phone numbers and our GREAT customer service haven't changed, but for the first time since 1998, we have a place big enough to house all of us! We are now in the suite and offices formerly occupied by Expert Travel. Our new office is more easily accessable from both entrances to the building:

• From the side parking lot, just enter the glass door and go down the steps
• From the Main Street entrance, just bear left, go down the hall, down the steps and again down the hallway

Sat, Mar 30 2002

Offices will be closed in observance of the Easter holiday.

07 Mar 2002

Norton AntiVirus 2002 scanning bypass: A recently released advisory indicates multiple methods by which a malicious e-mail can bypass the virus checking functions of Norton AntiVirus version 2002. For more information, see the reference URL below.

Confirming these vulnerabilities, the vendor basically stated that client/desktop antivirus protection will catch the viruses that bypass the e-mail scanner.

Source: SecurityFocus Bugtraq
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0065.html
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2002-03/0085.html

Fri-Mon (Mar 1-4)

We have been having intermittent problems with hardware that manages some of our digital inbound T-1 lines. The effect of that problem would be that some customers using those lines may have occasionally seen busy or fast busy signals. After reconfiguration attempts over the weekend failed, we replaced the hardware in question and will continue to monitor those circuits to assure top quality service to our customers. We apologize for any inconvience.

Sun, Mar 3 07:00 to 07:45

More upgrading software on routers and switches
We will be upgrading software on several of our routers and switches. Once completed we will have to reboot those devices. This will be seen as intermittent outages of our backbone and dedicated connections as well as some internal services such as email to certain customers between the hours of 07:00 and 07:45 on Sunday. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Fri-Sun (Mar 1-3)

WeirNet reps will be at the Home & Garden Expo: Fri 3:00-20:00, Sat 11:00-18:00, Sun 10:00-20:00

February 24, 2002-Sunday 07:00 to 07:45

Upgrading software on routers and switches
We will be upgrading software on several of our routers and switches. Once completed we will have to reboot those devices. This will be seen as intermittent outages of our backbone and dedicated connections as well as some internal services such as email to certain customers between the hours of 07:00 and 07:45 on Sunday. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Tue Jan 29

Recent local sightings of W32.Myparty worm

WeirNet strongly recommends using anti-virus software. Most current anti-virus software products are able to detect and alert the user that an intruder is attempting to install a Trojan horse program or that one has already been installed.

In order to ensure the continued effectiveness of such products, it is important to keep them up to date with current virus and attack signatures supplied by the original vendors. For more anti-virus info see: http://www.weir.net/support/faq/virus/

Jan 25th - 26th

We've experienced intermittent but progressively worsening problems on our backbone connection to the New York NAP. Sprint, AT&T, and Verizon have all been working on their pieces of the circuit and have addressed several network issues between here and there but have not yet completely solved the problem. This has forced us to move all routing we normally do through that circuit over to our other backbone circuits until the problem is successfully resolved. At peak times, our local customers may see latency in requests from certain servers as we are forced to route requests in a less than optimal manner.

Jan 1st

Offices will be closed in observance of the New Year holiday.

For previous bulletins, see [Bulletins Archive]

Daily 04:00-04:01

Synchronize clocks with National Bureau of Standards.

Weekly, Wed., 08:00

Scheduled Maintenance at which time some service interruption may occur.