The Department’s Mailing List server, lists.eecs.berkeley.edu, will be down for maintenance on Wednesday May 13, 2020, beginning at 6pm, for up to one hour. During this time incoming messages will be held for delivery; no mail will be lost, but the web interface will be inaccessible. During this maintenance, operating system patches will be installed, and the back-end database for this service will be migrated to a newer server.
[Read more…] about EECS Mailing List Server downtime, May 13 6p-7pRetirement of jabber.eecs March 27, 2020
IRIS has offered a jabber/XMPP server for a number of years, but usage has dropped to zero as people have migrated to other options. When the current SSL certificate expires March 27, 2020, we do not plan to renew it, and this service will be retired.
As a replacement for this service, we recommend Google Hangouts Chat or Hangouts Meet.
Ending support for TLS 1 and TLS 1.1 on March 24, 2020
Following the lead of the campus, Google, and other industry leaders, IRIS will be ending support for the older security protocols TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on the department web servers (e.g. people.eecs.berkeley.edu, www2.eecs.berkeley.edu, iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu, and any IRIS-hosted web site) on March 24, 2020. If you are using a modern web browser, you will not notice any changes.
UPDATE
[2020-03-23| robm ]
As previously announced, support for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 has been discontinued on all IRIS websites.
Resolved as of 2020-03-23 5:15pm
NIS Retirement in EECS, Dec 2020
To: System Administrators of Unix / Linux devices
Subject: Retirement of IRIS NIS service in EECS
IRIS NIS (Network Information Services) allows Unix computers to look up IRIS usernames, groups, passwords and other information from IRIS NIS servers.
Dating back to before the creation of IRIS, NIS service has been supported in the EECS Department. Now, IRIS provides the LDAP protocol as a replacement for NIS. This is now our supported service for distributing Unix username, password and group data. IRIS LDAP service features multiple redundant servers, and is updated in real-time with user account data.
[Read more…] about NIS Retirement in EECS, Dec 2020February 19, 2020 Linux Server Patching
Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Feb 19, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience outages of 30 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.
- Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
- Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
- Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
- IRIS Roster/Network applications (iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
Mailing Lists & IRIS Applications patching Wednesday Jan 15, 5pm
Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 5pm Wednesday, Jan 15, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 5pm and 6pm.
- Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
- IRIS Roster and Network applications on iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu.
ftp.eecs / ftp.cs service interruption
The Department’s ftp server ftp.eecs.berkeley.edu (aka ftp.cs.berkeley.edu) has been offline since 10am due to a firewall misconfiguration. We expect it to be back online by 12pm.
[Read more…] about ftp.eecs / ftp.cs service interruptionMailing List Server maintenance, Wednesday, June 5, 5pm-7pm (rescheduled)
The EECS mailing list server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be down for maintenance beginning Wednesday, June 5th at 5pm. The Sympa mailing list software will be upgraded to resolve an issue that has been affecting some lists. (This bug causes updates to list owners or moderators to not take effect until the server is restarted.
The upgrade should take less than 1 hour, but we are allocating 2 hours in case of any problems that might occur. During this window, no messages will be accepted or distributed by lists.eecs.berkeley.edu. Incoming messages will be deferred until the server is back up; no messages should be lost.
May 2019 Linux Server Patching
A few IRIS services will experience brief outages May 15, 2019 between 6pm and 7pm while systems are restarted following patching.
Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, May 15th, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.
- Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
- Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
- Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
- IRIS Roster/Network applications (iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu)
New SSL Certificate installed for IRIS-hosted websites
The SSL certificate for people.eecs.berkeley.edu and all other IRIS-hosted websites has been renewed. The new certificate expires May 12, 2021 and has the following fingerprints:
SHA-256 Fingerprint: D3:48:EE:23:64:CB:FD:FD:E5:F5:8E:5D:6E:F0:1B:F3:F7:CE:E4:7B:E3:2E:16:9D:4E:07:4A:A7:15:94:7B:8B
SHA-1 Fingerprint: 37:40:17:82:A1:42:D5:8C:68:C4:9E:23:C9:00:E1:3E:D2:2C:D9:1E[Read more…] about New SSL Certificate installed for IRIS-hosted websites