On the mornings of Monday 6/18, Tuesday 6/19 and Wednesday 6/20, we will be upgrading parts of the physical network, causing brief wired and wireless outages throughout EECS. Outages will occur during the window of 06:30-07:45. We regret the inconvenience.
Mailing lists and Jabber service will be unavailable briefly on Monday, June 18
Mailing lists hosted by lists.eecs and Jabber service will be unavailable for about ten minutes on Monday, June 15 beginning at 5:00p.m.
The server they are hosted on needs to be rebooted to finish up some routine maintenance.
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Network Outage: Soda Hall Floors 2, 5, 6, and 7
On Thursday, June 14 we will be upgrading some switch code that will cause a network outage on Floors 2, 5, 6, and 7 of Soda Hall from 07:00-07:45. We regret the inconvenience.
CalAgenda Unavailable
Hi, all:
I’m sorry to inform you all that CalAgenda is currently down. We are working to restore it as quickly as possible. We’ll keep [the CalAgenda mailing] list and the home page current on any changes to the system’s status.
Thanks for your patience.
Mimi
Domain controller down
One of our domain controllers is down, causing intermittent problems such as taking a long time to log into your Windows account on the EECS domain. I have re-routed services to the remaining two. This should be resolved next week.
Network Maintenance Monday and Tuesday
As part of our network upgrade plan, we will be moving some switch up link fibers on Monday and Tuesday mornings from 06:30-07:30. There will be some brief outages to several Soda Hall nets during this time. I am expecting that these outages should last less than 60 sec. each. We appreciate your understanding.
Fred ArchibaldHERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW downtime
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 12th.
HERMES, PRINT, RIS and WINSWW will be down for patching Wednesday,June 13th, 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.
Possible Security Breach
The UC Berkeley campus received an FBI report with evidence that
multiple computer accounts and systems was compromised in the time
frame of 2003-2005. The campus SNS (System and Network Security)
group believes that all evidence from the FBI report is consistent
with this being the UC Berkeley portion of the legacy of the
world-wide cyber attack by the infamous “Stakkato” alias. For more
information about Stakkato:
http://www.nsc.liu.se/~nixon/stakkato.pdf SNS forwarded information to EECS from the FBI report with what we
have identified as a copy of the department NIS domain
passwd file from November 18, 2004. This date appears to
correlate with activity via a compromised non-privileged user
computer account in EECS (this unauthorized activity was
presumably by Stakkato). Since Stakkato had access to very
powerful computing, Stakkato could have used “brute force” to guess
UNIX passwords.
Today’s Network Outage
We had a brief network outage this afternoon, from about 12:05-1:15 pm. A clerical error occurred in preparation for switching to the new network core hardware. This caused a VLAN to appear in the network core where it should not have been. This was the cause of the outage. My apologies.
Matlab R2007a Now Available on macsww
Matlab R2007a is now available on macsww for both PPC- and Intel- based Macs. Refer to IRIS’s Mac documentation for information about connecting to macsww.