Instructional & Research Information Systems
cronus and rhea (the IRIS recursive caching namesers)
have experienced some issues in resolving remote
DNS information today.
It is not clear if this is related to the DDOS (distributed
denial of service) attacks against Dyn. It appears
there have been a series of DDOS attacks against DYN today –
4am PST, ~9am PST and 1pm PST
The wired network in the 165 Cory server room will be offline from 8-10AM while switches are physically relocated.
All department services have redundant copies elsewhere and will not be affected. Private systems within 165 Cory will not have network connectivity.
Please contact help@eecs.berkeley.edu if you have any questions or concerns about this maintenance.
[Read more…] about 165 Cory Network Outage, 10/21/16
The wireless network on half of the fifth floor of Soda Hall has been offline since yesterday morning. Trouble reports were received this morning and we are currently working to resolve the issue.
[Read more…] about Soda 5th Floor Wireless Outage, 10/17-18
Routine RedHat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system restarts. Starting at 6pm Wednesday, Oct 12, IDSG will be patching and rebooting affected servers. The following services will experience brief outages of 10 minutes or less between 6pm and 7pm.
* Personal and Project web services (people.eecs, apps.eecs, and all IRIS-hosted project websites)
* Department mailing list services (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Department wiki service (wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* Department ftp server (ftp.eecs / ftp.cs.berkeley.edu)
* Department jabber/xmpp service (jabber.eecs.berkeley.edu)
* IRIS website (iris.eecs.berkeley.edu)
[Read more…] about Brief outages to various IRIS services, Oct 12, 6pm-7pm
The departmental dhcp server will be down for a needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 7:00am to 7:30am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about dhcp server downtime Wednesday October 12, 2016 07:00-07:30am
Resolved as of 2016-10-12 08:05:00
passwd.eecs will be down for maintenance
Tuesday October 11, 2016 from 7am to 9am.
passwd,eecs is the UNIX login server used to
change your NIS password in the departmental
NIS domain.
[Read more…] about Tuesday October 11, 2016 – passwd.eecs down time 7am-9am
gateway.eecs outgoing smtp service is down.
Please us an alternate outgoing smtp server
such as smtp.gmail.com
We are sorry for the inconvenience.
[Read more…] about gateway.eecs outgoing smtp service down – September 29, 2016
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU will be down for patching and needed reboot to activate changes delivered by some Oracle patches.
Though the scheduled downtime is 6:30am to 8am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
[Read more…] about login.eecs downtime Wednesday September 28, 2016 06:30-08:00am
Network staff are investigating two failed switches. The switch failures are affecting a number of hosts in the department; in particular, communication between hosts on the 128.32.48.0 subnet (165 Cory Hall) and the NIS/DNS servers cronus and rhea.
*Update*: as of 10:28am, communication between the 48 subnet and cronus/rhea was restored.
[Read more…] about Network disruption