Update to PrismNet SSL Certificates

October 8th, 2009

We have recently purchased and are starting to implement a new SSL certificate chain.

We have updated the SMTP server today, Thu Oct 8th, and we will be implementing these certificates on other servers in the near future.

These servers include www.prismnet.com, webmail.prismnet.com, mail.prismnet.com.

If you have any problems with these issues please feel free to contact us at

http://www.prismnet.com/html/email_support.php

The Support Team

Ted Hatfield General News

New Webmail Options

July 16th, 2009

We have added 2 new plugins to our webmail page. These plugins allow you the options to

Import or Export your address book via  a comma delimited file.

Compose messages in html rather than plain text.

Technical Support Team

Ted Hatfield Support News

Hill Country Dialup Problems.

July 7th, 2009

PrismNet’s dialup access provider (ChoiceNet Communications)
for the Hill Country area has abruptly gone out of business.

We will no longer be able to provide local dialup access to
some areas in the Hill Country area.

We are still supporting dialup access to these areas:

Austin                  512-485-7440
Buda                    512-523-3369
Dripping Springs        512-829-2100
Florence                512-763-3963
Georgetown              512-763-3963
Granite Shoals          830-693-0097
Horseshoe Bay           830-693-0097
Houston                 713-554-5437
Kingsland               830-693-0097
Marble Falls            830-693-0097
Rocky Creek             830-693-0097
Sunrise Beach           830-693-0097
Tow                     830-693-0097

Ted Hatfield Dialup, Support News, Unplanned Outages

Perl Module installation: p5-Net-SSLeay-1.35_1

June 22nd, 2009

Per a request from one of our users we have installed this module on our primary webserver, www.prismnet.com, as well as our three shell servers.  eris.io.com, fnord.io.com, and tempest.prismnet.com.

Information for p5-Net-SSLeay-1.35_1:

Comment: Perl5 interface to SSL

Description: This module offers

- some high level convenience functions for accessing web pages on SSL servers
- a sslcat() function for writing your own clients
- access to the SSL api of SSLeay package,   so you can write servers or clients for more complicated applications

WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Net-SSLeay/

Ted Hatfield Support News

Multiple outages and connectivity issues.

June 18th, 2009

This morning at approximately 9:45 A.M. CST 06/18/2009,  we experienced a denial of service attack against one of our customers.  This caused an intermittent loss of connectivity for some customers, dialup service in the Marble Falls area, and incoming VOIP Service.

The issue has been resolved and we are actively monitoring the network involved in case further action is needed.

Technical Support

Ted Hatfield Support News, Unplanned Outages

WWW CPU Failure

May 28th, 2009

CPU 1  on the server hosting personal home pages and this blog had a hardware failure resulting in the need for migration to new hardware. After testing the integrity of the operating system we brought the prismnet/io/gateway websites, and personal websites back online.

Justin Roush General News, Servers, Support News, Unplanned Outages

Server Maintenance at 18:00 (6:00 pm) CDT.

May 12th, 2009

We will be doing a physical move of some systems and some of our users will experience a brief outage lasting no more than 30 minutes.   This will include shell services, outgoing email, and any new incoming email will be delayed during this period.

Justin Roush Articles of Interest, General News, Planned Outages, Servers

[Resolved 05/13/2009] NNTP Issues with fnord.io.com

May 12th, 2009

The issues has been resolved.  We worked with our upstream nntp provider to double the number of concurrent connections for all of our shell servers.

tempest.prismnet.com, fnord.io.com, and eris.io.com.

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We have been experiencing nntp issues from fnord.io.com.  Users have been experiencing errors similar to the following.

nnrp3.twtelecom.net: Your host connection limit reached - news@twtelecom.net

We have a ticket open with our news provider so they can resolve this issue for us.

Updates will be posted when the issue is resolved.

Ted Hatfield Servers, Support News, Unplanned Outages

Spam Detection Rules Expanded

May 11th, 2009

Additional checks and spam rules have been added to validate email on our incoming email servers.  As always changes like this are to improve accuracy with our spam detection but not at the cost if false positives (Email being marked as spam that should not be).  We will be monitoring the effectiveness of these tests, as well as the system performance on our filtering systems to ensure timely delivery.

Justin Roush General News

May 4th, 2009

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the 2009 Funding Symposium.

This Thursday, May 7th
Get a special discounted rate of $99 when you enter the following code:
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Chris Bombela
Business Development
PrismNet Ltd.
(512) 646-4932
(512) 431-6969 Cell
www.prismnet.com

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