IRIS Staff

Hermes will be patched tonight, for the Symantec vulnerability, at 7:00 pm. Please log out beforehand.

Macserver was unexpectedly down today from approx 11:30am to 11:45am. It is back up and running, I apologize for any inconvenience.

There will be a network maintenance at Soda 3rd floor (soda3b)on Wed July 18. The purpose of this maintenance is for solving the software issue on the switch. There will be brief network outages from 6:30AM to 8:00AM. This will affect users who use wired connection on the east side of 3rd floor.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause. Please make your plans accordingly.

The IRIS website, all mailing lists hosted on lists.eecs, and the EECS Jabber service will be offline on Wednesday, July 11 from 5:00p.m. to 5:30p.m.

The machines hosting these services will be undergoing some routine maintenance during this time.

On Thursday morning 7/5 (from 06:30-07:45), we will be moving some network circuits onto the new infrastructure. There will be a brief outage for the connection to BWRC (both wired and wireless) and for some wired connections on the 2nd floor and 2nd floor mezzanine (wireless will be unaffected).

On Monday and Tuesday mornings, 7/9 and 7/10 (from 06:30-07:45), more wired connections on the 2nd floor of Cory will be moved (wireless will be unaffected). There will be a brief outage for some connections during this window.

We regret any inconvenience this may cause.
Fred Archibald

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 10th.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Wednesday,
July 11th, from 3:00p???5:00p.

macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse,
will be down for maintenance at this time as well.

The network switch that serves half of the the 3rd floor of Soda
(specifically the 128.32.112.0/24 net) had a major failure this
afternoon. Service was restored at about 3:50 this afternoon by power cycling the box. However, the type of failure seen is one that suspected to return. We will make preparations in case the management module or chassis needs to be replaced. There may not be a lot of waning if this happens again.

On the mornings of Monday 7/2 and Tuesday 7/3, we will be upgrading parts of the physical network, causing brief wired and wireless outages in Cory Hall. Outages will occur during the window of 06:30-07:45. We regret the inconvenience.

UPDATE from IDSG:

The good news is that the backup in question has finished.
The bad news is that another has started.
The good news is that it’s an incremental, not a full, so it’ll be over
much faster.
The bad news is I don’t quite know when.

Due to a problem with one of the spam firewalls, some email was delayed on Friday. The problem has been fixed and all delayed email has been delivered (as of 10pm Friday). No email has been lost. We apologize for the inconvenience.