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Brief Downtime for Multiple IRIS Services

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The EECS Department website, FTP server, Windows Terminal Server (winterm), the IRIS website, Jabber, and Sympa (mailing list) services will all experience brief periods of unavailability beginning at 7:00am on Wednesday, February 25, 2009, possibly lasting until 8:00am.

The servers hosting these services will be changing IP addresses during this time as their current subnet (128.32.139.0/24) is being repurposed. DNS will be updated at 7:00am as well, so you shouldn’t need to make any changes to client applications unless you’ve been accessing any of these services directly by their IP rather than by their DNS name.
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IRIS wireless networks problem at BWRC

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The IRIS dhcp daemon was not responding to requests for EECS, EECS-Open and EECS-Secure network support at BWRC (the 128.32.63.128/25 network).

A script utilized to update dhcp support at BWRC for the EECS, EECS-Open and EECS-Secure networks contained a logic error which resulted in an attempted restart of the dhcpd daemon when the dhcpd configuration files contained an error. Both the configuration file and the script were corrected and the dhcp daemon was started to resume service.

AirBears support at BWRC was not affected by this outage.

IRIS wireless support in other buildings was not affected.

This incident was not related to some devices on the BWRC restricted network (128.32.63.0/26) having incorrect netmasks.

Resolved as of 2009-02-20 13:14:00

February 2009 Server Patching

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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 10th, 2009.

PRINT, RIS, WINTERM and WINSWW will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 11th, at 3:00 am.

macserver.eecs will be down for patching and maintenance Wednesday, February 11th, from 6:00 a.m. – 7:00 a.m.

Resolved as of 2009-02-11 17:00:00

Announcing New EECSbackup for Windows, MacOSX

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IRIS would like to encourage the EECS community to keep appropriate backups of important data. To that end, IRIS is making EECSbackup scripts available to Windows and MacOS users. We continue to recommend that important files be kept in your EECS home directory, where snapshots and backups are routine, to safeguard against laptop or desktop hardware failure; these backup scripts can help you simplify the copying of your important local data from your laptop or desktop to your EECS home directory.

EECSbackup scripts are currently being provided as a “public beta” release; feedback to help@eecs is welcome.

Please see the EECSbackup FAQ page for more information.

LINUX SWW

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Linux SWW is intended to host only licensed software. Starting Monday, February 23rd, there will be an extensive cleanup to remove out-of-date
non-licensed packages still lingering there.

mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU was not accepting incoming email

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mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU was not accepting incoming email from Thursday February 5, 2009 02:56 to 05:30.

This resulted in delay of delivery of email. No email was lost. No warning messages should have been sent back to senders.

It appears the process table on mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU became full. It appears this may have been a ddos attack.

mailspool.CS.Berkeley.EDU was rebooted to resume normal service.

Resolved as of 2009-02-05 05:30:00

Wireless network outage

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One of EECS switches requires to reboot On Jan 30 (Friday) at 6:00AM. This will affect EECS wireless services from 5-7 floors at Soda Hall. This rebooting should be less than 5 mins. Please keep your plan accordingly.

Resolved as of 2009-02-04 12:51:00