New Office Hours
To better serve our customers, we are expanding our office hours. Since 2004, our office has been closed for lunch from 1:00 – 2:00pm, but we are now going to be open during those hours. This includes phone support as well as walk-in access to our main office. Our phone support will continue to be 8:00am – 9:00pm 7 days a week, and our technicians are still on call for emergencies 24 x 7 x 365.
MSN/Hotmail on Blacklist
Date: 1/14/2013 – Email from the domains of msn.com and hotmail.com are not coming through currently because of ongoing spam campaigns. The mail servers responsible for the domains are listed on both the popular SORBS and SPAMCOP blacklists as well as some others. We currently use SORBS as part of our email filtering, and this results in the messages being rejected. Technicians working for Hotmail/MSN are aware of the issue and are working to correct it.
Java Recommendations
Date: 1-14-2013 – We have had several customers ask about our thoughts regarding Homeland Security’s recommendation to disable or uninstall Java.
In case you are not sure what Java is, it is a programming language that is designed to run on different operating systems (this is called “cross platform”). Java can run on anything from a Windows PC, to Mac OSX, to a tablet or cell phone. Because of this, we use Java in our iFoye technology which allows us to remotely support customers running virtually any operating system. It is possible to disable Java in your browser so you will not have the security issues brought up by Homeland Security and then re-enable it if you need a support session from us through iFoye.
Homeland Security seems to think there is no “practical solution” to the problem. However Oracle (the makers of Java) have released a new update which addresses the concerns made by the government. We recommend that everyone running Java immediately run that update. However, if you are uncomfortable with keeping Java live, just follow the instructions to disable Java in your browser. We recommend running the update even if you disable Java.
Planned Maintenance
December 21, 2012 – AT&T Network Engineers will be performing a planned maintenance on Birmingham-Alabama Gigabit Access Router 1. The work will be performed on 1/15/2013, during the maintenance window of 12:00AM-6:00AM, local router time. AT&T’s goal is to successfully complete the task and restore service within the stated time frame.
AT&T Network Engineers will be performing an IOS upgrade.
Due to the redundant nature of our network, very limited service interruption is expected although some increased latency may be experienced as the routes adjust when the AT&T circuit drops.
Update: 1/14/2013 – This maintenance has been canceled. We will notify users when it is rescheduled.
If there are any questions or concerns regarding this maintenance, please email support@internetpro.net or call 256-547-6817.
NetSol Cloud Updates
December 20, 2012 – We’ve applied a bugfix update to our cloud product today. This update addresses several issues including:
- Show drag and drop shadow for Firefox
- Fix setting of sharing password
- Several sharing fixes
- Fix versioning during sharing
- Fix mounting of external filesystems
- Fix several PHP warnings
- Show /Shared as standard directory
- Fix WebDAV quota enforement
- Restore send sharing link by email
- Fix mimetype icons for new files
- Fix the folder size calculation
- Fix for deleting multiple files
- Security: Auth bypass in user_webdavauth and user_ldap
- Security: XSS vulnerability in bookmarks
The desktop sync client has also been updated. The new version is 1.1.4.
This is a bugfix release for the 1.1.x line that fixes two significant bugs.
- [Fixes] csync: Fix encoding issues on MacOSX clients, now the client sends normalized unicode on that platform.
- [Fixes] csync: The client does a more sophisticated handling of server error states which avoids data clearing in some cases.
Known Problems
- Files > 2GB size can cause problems.
WordPress Updates
Monday December 17, 2012 – As part of our full service hosting, we will be upgrading WordPress-based sites on our servers to the new 3.5 version which was released a few days ago. We wanted to wait a few days to make sure there were no critical bugs. During the upgrade process, the sites will go into “maintenance mode” and the site will be unavailable. The maintenance mode usually lasts less than 30 seconds as the upgrade is applied. We will check to make sure the site seems to be working once the upgrade is complete, but we do recommend that users thoroughly check over their sites to make sure the upgrade did not cause any issues. We will post an update here when we have completed the upgrade on all sites.
Update: Wednesday December, 19, 2012 – All updates to WordPress sites have been completed. Again, please check your site functionality – especially plugins. If there is a problem, please let us know by calling 256-547-6817 or emailing support@internetpro.net.
End of Dial-Up Internet Service
We regret to inform our customers that we are going to discontinue providing dial-up internet services. The time has come where the technology is too outdated to be useful and as a result very few customers are still using it making it no longer feasible for us to provide the service.
The dial-up service will terminate on December 31, 2012. If you have pre-paid for service beyond December, we will be issuing a refund to you.
If you are currently using your internetpro.net (or other email) that is hosted with us, you CAN continue to use that address even after dial-up service stops. We charge $24 per year for the address, and it will work with any internet provider you decide to change to (DSL, Cable, cellular, etc.). Please let us know if you wish to continue the use of your email address so we can adjust your account accordingly.
Thank you for your business, and we do apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.
Please contact us at 256-547-6817 or support@internetpro.net if you have any questions.
Kathy Turns 50!
We didn’t think she’d make it, but somehow she did. Kathy has now passed the 1/2 century mark. While we are pretty sure she won’t make the full century mark, we wish her well in her attempt.
So, if your order gets lost or delayed, just remember that we at Network Solutions are trying to support the elderly in the workplace, but sometimes you have to cut them some slack. 🙂
NetSol Cloud Updates
November 28, 2012 – We’ve applied a bugfix update to our cloud product today. This update addresses several issues including:
- Fix the new from url button
- Fix a memory overflow with downloading of big files via WebDAV
- Fix problems with uploading files who have special characters in the name
- Fix wrong folder size calculation
- Improved share link generation
- Fix the syncing of the Shared folder
- Fix Sharing by link from within Shared folder
- Several WebDAV fixes
- Fix drag and drop uploading
- Several Gallery fixes
- Several Contacts fixes
- Smaller fixes
We’ve also got new versions of the desktop sync clients. The new version also fixes some bugs in the 1.1.1 client. Fixes include:
- Allow to properly cancel the password dialog.
- If local sync dir is not existing, create it.
- Display error messages in status dialog.
- GUI fixes for the connection wizard.
- Show username for connection in statusdialog.
- Show intro wizard on new connection setup.
- Use CredentialStore to better support various credential backends.
- Handle missing local folder more robustly: Create it if missing instead of ignoring.
- Simplify treewalk code.
- Moved journal database to sync directory.
- Fixed Daylight Saving Time time issue on Win32.
- Fixed inode querie for directories on Win32.
- Stricter error checks on HTTP replies from server.
- Detect looping in mkdirs to fix sharing.
We recommend updating to the newest desktop client if you are using that feature. If you have any questions, please contact us at support@internetpro.net.