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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 – Thursday March 19, 2020 06:30-07:00amlogin.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 – Thursday March 19, 2020 06:30-07:00amMicrosoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 10th, 2020. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 11th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, March 11th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about March 2020 Windows Server PatchingFollowing the lead of the campus, Google, and other industry leaders, IRIS will be ending support for the older security protocols TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 on the department web servers (e.g. people.eecs.berkeley.edu, www2.eecs.berkeley.edu, iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu, and any IRIS-hosted web site) on March 24, 2020. If you are using a modern web browser, you will not notice any changes.
The Jacobs Hall network was unstable from approximately 11AM to 11:45AM due to a router malfunction. We restored service and will continue to monitor the router. Please email help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you continue to notice a problem.
To: System Administrators of Unix / Linux devices
Subject: Retirement of IRIS NIS service in EECS
IRIS NIS (Network Information Services) allows Unix computers to look up IRIS usernames, groups, passwords and other information from IRIS NIS servers.
Dating back to before the creation of IRIS, NIS service has been supported in the EECS Department. Now, IRIS provides the LDAP protocol as a replacement for NIS. This is now our supported service for distributing Unix username, password and group data. IRIS LDAP service features multiple redundant servers, and is updated in real-time with user account data.
[Read more…] about NIS Retirement in EECS, Dec 2020Routine Red Hat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Feb 19, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience outages of 30 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.
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.
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 11th, 2020. PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, February 12th, at 3:00 am.
WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, February 12th, depending on additional software updates.
[Read more…] about February 2020 Windows Server PatchingThe 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 – Thursday February 6, 2020 07:15-07:45am