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IPv6 Coming to EECS Wi-Fi This Weekend (Feb. 15-16)

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This weekend, 2/15 through 2/17, we will be enabling IPv6 on the EECS wireless networks. The current plan is to enable on EECS-PSK Saturday, EECS-Secure Sunday, and monitor on Monday. The EECSv6 test network will be abated later in the week and any test users should return to using EECS-Secure.

If your device is registered on the EECS network and has its IPv6 stack enabled, you will receive IPv6 connectivity without any further action needed.

We recommend everyone confirm that their wireless devices have an IPv6 firewall enabled to maintain the security of your machine.

Please email help@eecs.berkeley.edu with any questions or concerns about our IPv6 rollout.

cronus and rhea downtime – Thursday February 6, 2020 06:45-07:15am

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cronus one of the departmental DNS, NIS and time servers will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches from 6:45-7:00am.

rhea the other departmental DNS, NIS and time server will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches from 7:00-7:15 am.

Though the total scheduled downtime is 6:45am to 7:15am, we expect actual downtime to be less.

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New Print Server

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With the ending of Microsoft support for Server 2008, we are moving a new version of print.eecs into production, running Server 2016, effective Wednesday morning, January 15, 2020.

All print queues have been migrated to the new print server, and lpd service as well, so existing print clients should not need any configuration changes, and should just be able to keep printing as expected.

If you do have any problems with printing via print.eecs, please report them to help@eecs, and we’ll attempt to fix them as soon as possible.

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Mailing Lists & IRIS Applications patching Wednesday Jan 15, 5pm

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Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 5pm Wednesday, Jan 15, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 5pm and 6pm.

  • Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
  • IRIS Roster and Network applications on iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu.
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IT Support During Winter 2019 Energy Curtailment

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Due to the Winter Holiday, Energy Curtailment, and New Year’s Holidays, the Berkeley campus is officially closed for the period Monday, December 23 to Wednesday, January 1, reopening on Thursday, January 2, 2020.

All departmental computing servers will remain on and should be available during the break, but there will be no staff on site to provide any computing support or handle any requests. Automatic monitoring systems will alert staff to critical infrastructure problems, and any such problems will be dealt with on a best-effort basis.

The IRIS Helpdesk will close early at noon on Friday, December 20, and will reopen on Thursday, January 2. Problem reports can be left on the Helpdesk voice mail (510-642-7777) or emailed to help@eecs, but staff may not receive or reply to these messages until January 2.

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