News

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.

Some IMAP users who have created whitelists have reported that email which should have been whitelisted by domain has ended up in their Spam folders. The vendor, Barracuda Spam Appliance, has identified the bug, and will fix it in the next revision of the code.

Until the bug is fixed, there is a temporary work-around that solves the problem. When configuring a personal whitelist for a domain, be sure to add the ‘@’ in front of the domainname in the “Email Address” field under the “Allowed Email Addresses and Domains (Whitelist)”, i.e., ‘@berkeley.edu’ instead of ‘berkeley.edu’.

For details on how to configure whitelists and blacklists, see:

https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/15-faq/00-accounts/00-email.html#phase2ConfigLists

If you have an e-mail account on the imap server and have your spam and sanitized virus messages automatically filtered into the EECS-Filtered folder, then you can now control how long those unwanted messages should be kept around.

Visit the [spam and virus e-mail deletion][1] page to make your adjustments.

Don’t currently have your spam and virus e-mail automatically filtered by the imap server? Head on over to the [automatic e-mail filtering][2] page and “opt-in.”

If you ever need to get to them again, both of the aforementioned utilities can be found on the [forms page][3].

[1]: https://imap.eecs.berkeley.edu:442
[2]: https://idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu/eecs/eecs/imap-filter-optout.cgi
[3]: /35-forms.html

The format of IRIS News e-mails has been updated to the following:

TITLE OF ARTICLE IN ALL CAPS
By <Author Name>



Url: <Link to article on IRIS website.>



SUMMARY
<Brief summary of the article.>

The IRIS website will be unavailable from 10:00p.m. to 12:00a.m. on Tuesday, June 19 for an application migration.

We will be installing a new version of the application that manages the news section of the website along with some supporting framework that will provide a good foundation for future website enhancements.

HERMES, PRINT, RIS, WINSWW and MACSERVER were not patched as previously announced.

They will be down for patching Wednesday, June 20, from 5:00p¿6:00p.

My apologies for the delay.