IRIS Staff

EECS wireless network equipment also provides access to the campus AirBears wireless network.

During the afternoon of March 13, EECS wireless network equipment had problems with connectivity to the AirBears router, so that clients were unable to use the AirBears network within EECS areas. The problem was resolved just after 4pm.

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 13, 2007.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Wednesday, March 14, 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 IRIS website and the IRIS list server (lists.eecs) will be unavailable from 12:00p.m. to 12:30p.m. on March 8, 2007 due to operating system patching.

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Due to a problem with cooling water and a leak to pipes for the A/C that feeds the 3rd floor closet, the closest became over temperature, causing a failure on at least one switch this morning. This resulted in connectivity issues on the 3rd floor wired net and wireless outages on the 2nd and 3rd floors (and part of the 1st floor) of Cory. We have reset one switch and will be monitoring the situation. We are trying to use fans and spot cooling to bring the temperature down until the leak is repaired and normal cooling can be restored.

On Tuesday, March 5th, 2007, IDSG will place a new startup script on the
EECS Windows domain. The script updates Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Server
hosts for the new Daylight Saving Time start and end dates. To get the
update, Windows 2000 hosts in the EECS domain will just need to reboot.

This script is for English language hosts only. If your 2000 host is
some other language you will need to manually update. See
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/914387/en-us for instructions. Click on “Method 2: Change the time zone settings on a single computer”.

If you are using Windows XP or better and have been keeping up with the
Microsoft patches, your host is already updated. This startup script
will not affect your host.

macserver.eecs.berkeley.edu, which hosts the Mac software warehouse, will be down for maintenance tomorrow (Thursday, February 22) from 3pm – 4pm.

We are currently seeing a problem with AirBears Wireless in EECS. It seems that clients are unable to get DHCP leases on AirBears. Other EECS WLANs are not impacted. IS&T has been contacted.
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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Wednesday,
February 14th, 2007, from 3:00p to 5:00p.

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

The IRIS website (https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu) will be offline for about 30 minutes on Tuesday, February 06, 2007 beginning at 12:00pm.

We will be applying operating system patches to the machine that hosts the website and will need to reboot it in order to have the patches take effect.

Downtime shouldn’t be more than the aforementioned 30 minutes and will, most likely, be much less.

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There was a problem during the morning of Monday January 29, 2007
that resulted in some email bouncing between 07:18 and 07:54.

One of the EECS mail servers running anti-virus software failed to
properly restart the anti-virus software (01/29/2007 07:18:31)
after it downloaded an updated pattern file.

The email server in question is configured to by default report a
transient mail problem when the anti-virus software is unavailable.
We were able to reproduce the expected transient mail problem
in our testing.

For reasons that are not currently apparent, it appears the EECS
Barracuda anti-spam appliances started bouncing some email during
the 07:18 and 07:54 time period Monday January 29, 2007. We would
have expected the transient mail problem to cause the EECS Barracuda
anti-spam appliances to try to send the messages again after a short delay.

The email problem was fixed Monday January 29, 2007 07:54 am.

We hope that any senders of email to an @EECS.Berkeley.EDU address during
the relevant time period will check their bounces and send/resend an
email if appropriate.

If you sent any email to an @EECS.Berkeley.EDU address during
the relevant time period please check to see if it bounced.

We are sorry for the inconvenience.