Instructional & Research Information Systems
| Derek Calderon
The certificate used by the EECS-Secure authentication servers (clearpass.eecs.berkeley.edu) has been updated. Wireless devices using EECS-Secure may prompt you to accept the updated certificate before you can reconnect to the network.
Updated certificate files and fingerprints have been published here in case you would like to verify the new certificates or install them on a device.
| Rob McNicholas
The Department’s ftp server ftp.eecs.berkeley.edu (aka ftp.cs.berkeley.edu) has been offline since 10am due to a firewall misconfiguration. We expect it to be back online by 12pm.
[Read more…] about ftp.eecs / ftp.cs service interruption| Mark Kraitchman
The departmental authenticating outgoing smtp server gateway.eecs will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 7:15am to 7:45am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about gateway.eecs downtime – Tuesday December 10, 2019 07:15-07:45am| Mark Kraitchman
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.
[Read more…] about cronus and rhea downtime – Tuesday December 10, 2019 06:45-07:15am| Mark Kraitchman
The departmental dhcp server will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 7:00am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about dhcp server downtime – Tuesday December10, 2019 06:30-07:00am| Mark Kraitchman
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be down for patching and needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 7am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about login.eecs downtime – Tuesday December 10, 2019 06:30-07:00am| Lars Rohrbach
As with any major OS release, we recommend a cautious approach, especially where your primary device is concerned. Major releases often bring new issues or bugs, which may take some time for the vendor to address with patches and updates.
We have reports that Mac users who have upgraded to Catalina from a prior version of MacOS (or who have transferred data from a system using a prior version of MacOS) have experienced problems with wireless networking. In particular, users may see no wireless network SSIDs available, and users may be unable to connect to any captive portal wireless network (frequently used at public hotspots).
[Read more…] about Recommendation: Delay Upgrading to MacOS 10.15 (Catalina)| Lars Rohrbach
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, December 10th, 2019.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, December 11th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, December 11th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about December 2019 Windows Server Patching| Mark Kraitchman
The departmental authenticating outgoing smtp server gateway.eecs will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 7:15am to 7:45am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about gateway.eecs downtime – Tuesday December 3, 2019 07:15-07:45am| Mark Kraitchman
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.
[Read more…] about cronus and rhea downtime – Tuesday December 3, 2019 06:45-07:15 am