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login.eecs downtime Tuesday November 22, 2016 06:30-08:00am

November 22, 2016 by Mark Kraitchman

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.
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EECS Mailing List Server down

November 21, 2016 by Rob McNicholas

The Department’s Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu is down. The mailing list software crashed around 12:50pm, and the server is currently being restarted We expect it to be back by 1:15pm.

Resolved as of 2016-11-21 13:00:00

IRIS Network and Roster applications down Sunday Nov 13 9am-10:30am

November 13, 2016 by Rob McNicholas

The IRIS Network and Roster applications will be unavailable Sunday November 3 between 9am and 10:30am for system maintenance. The Oracle database behind these applications is having quarterly patches applied.

Resolved as of 2016-11-13 10:10:00

Brief outages to various IRIS services, Nov 10, 6pm-7pm

November 10, 2016 by Rob McNicholas

Routine RedHat Linux operating system patches have been released which require system reboots. Starting at 6pm Thursday, Nov 10, 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)

Resolved as of 2016-11-10 18:35:00

November 2016 Windows Server Patching

November 8, 2016 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 8th, 2016.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 9th, at 3:00 am.

WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00 am Wednesday, November 9th, depending on additional software updates.

Resolved as of 2016-11-09 09:00:00

dhcp server downtime Tuesday November 8, 2016 07:00-07:30am

November 8, 2016 by 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 7:00am to 7:30am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
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Network Outage, SDH 2-4th floors, 10/27/16

October 27, 2016 by Derek Calderon

We have just experienced an outage of a main switch which serves wired and wireless on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors of SDH. Network staff are investigating and will repair ASAP.
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dhcp server downtime Tuesday October 25, 2016 07:00-07:30am

October 25, 2016 by 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 7:00am to 7:30am, we expect actual downtime to be less.
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login.eecs downtime Tuesday October 25, 2016 06:30-08:00am

October 25, 2016 by Mark Kraitchman

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.
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DNS issues Friday October 21, 2016

October 21, 2016 by Mark Kraitchman

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