Department Webservice

Department Webserver Upgrade, April 28th

April 28, 2015 by Rob McNicholas

On April 28, 2015, the department webserver www.eecs.berkeley.edu (and www.cs.berkeley.edu, as well as all the project websites that IRIS hosts) will be migrated to new, faster hardware. As part of this upgrade, we will also be upgrading the version of the Apache HTTP server software to the current branch, Apache 2.4. This is considered the current best version and contains [numerous improvements over the 2.2 branch we are currently running](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/new_features_2_4.html).

Unfortunately, [there are some changes in syntax or behavior](http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/upgrading.html) that will affect people who have their own websites. The owners of any web site which may be affected by this change will receive a direct email later today with the subject “Action Needed: Update your .htaccess files.” This email will list the specific file(s) you need to check and will include a link to some documentation on the most common changes that will be needed.

This documentation is now [up on our website](https://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu//10-services/web-technotes.html#upgrade24) .

The full list of affected websites is below.

abbeel.berkeley.edu
aima.eecs.berkeley.edu
andros.eecs.berkeley.edu
autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
basics.eecs.berkeley.edu
bavm2010.eecs.berkeley.edu
bayesianlogic.cs.berkeley.edu
bears.berkeley.edu
bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
bjc.eecs.berkeley.edu
blackouts.eecs.berkeley.edu
bloom.cs.berkeley.edu
bnrg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
bodik-lab.cs.berkeley.edu
boom.cs.berkeley.edu
brass.cs.berkeley.edu
bugzilla.cs.berkeley.edu
byob.eecs.berkeley.edu
c-bicc.cs.berkeley.edu
cc05.cs.berkeley.edu
cloudfail.cs.berkeley.edu
cognitivecomputing2007.eecs.berkeley.edu
control.cs.berkeley.edu
crest.berkeley.edu
cs4hs.berkeley.edu
csedday.berkeley.edu
cs-scholars.berkeley.edu
daedalus.CS.Berkeley.EDU
datasplash.cs.berkeley.edu
deter.CS.Berkeley.EDU
droidblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
eecs.org
endeavour.CS.Berkeley.EDU
fff.cs.berkeley.edu
forms4usall.CS.Berkeley.EDU
gasnet.cs.berkeley.edu
gist.cs.berkeley.edu
graphics.eecs.berkeley.edu
griddb.cs.berkeley.edu
harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu
hdp.eecs.berkeley.edu
hifi.cs.berkeley.edu
i3.CS.Berkeley.EDU
iceberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu
intelli-sec.cs.berkeley.edu
iptps03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
istcsc.cs.berkeley.edu
itcs.cs.berkeley.edu
iwqos03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
javasketch.cs.berkeley.edu
lithonet.eecs.berkeley.edu
mariposa.cs.berkeley.edu
mobicom2003.CS.Berkeley.EDU
nanophotonics.eecs.berkeley.edu
nano.eecs.berkeley.edu
nguyenlab.berkeley.edu
nlp.cs.berkeley.edu
nonlinear.eecs.berkeley.edu
oasis.CS.Berkeley.EDU
obrien.berkeley.edu
Ocala.CS.Berkeley.EDU
OpenNetLab.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
optoelectronics.eecs.berkeley.edu
orange.eecs.berkeley.edu
osq.cs.berkeley.edu
overmind.cs.berkeley.edu
p2.cs.berkeley.edu
pier.cs.berkeley.edu
powersoc2012.org
power.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
quantum.cs.berkeley.edu
redbook.cs.berkeley.edu
rv2011.eecs.berkeley.edu
s2k-ftp.cs.berkeley.edu
safetp.cs.berkeley.edu
sahara.CS.Berkeley.EDU
secml.cs.berkeley.edu
security.cs.berkeley.edu
simons.berkeley.edu
sipc.eecs.berkeley.edu
snapl.org
syslunch.CS.Berkeley.EDU
telegraph.cs.berkeley.edu
tenet.berkeley.edu
theory.eecs.berkeley.edu
tier-share.cs.berkeley.edu
titanium.cs.berkeley.edu
tracehost.cs.berkeley.edu
ucbvax.berkeley.edu
webblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
webtp.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu
www-cryo.eecs.berkeley.edu
www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
www-w2k.cs.berkeley.edu
www-wavelet.eecs.berkeley.edu
xisa.cs.berkeley.edu
yfilter.cs.berkeley.edu
zadeh.cs.berkeley.edu
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apps.eecs, wiki.eecs downtime Friday 8am

October 17, 2014 by Rob McNicholas

The server hosting apps.eecs.berkeley,edu, wik.eecs.berkeley.edu and some other project websites[*] will be rebooted Friday, October 17th 2014 between 8am and 9am. Total downtime should be around 5 to 10 minutes.

This server is experiencing poor network performance. This reboot will be to reconfigure the virtual machine with a new network driver which has shown significantly better performance in our testing. Current bandwith to our NFS server is lmited to around 1.2 MB/s. In testing with the new driver, we are getting around 25 MB/s.

As usual, please send any questions or comments to the IRIS helpdesk at help@eecs.berkeley.edu.

[*] The full list of affected websites is:

bjc.berkeley.edu
bsim.eecs.berkeley.edu
csillustrated.berkeley.edu
leed.eecs.berkeley.edu
rt.eecs.berkeley.edu
snap.berkeley.edu
wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu
www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
www-video.eecs.berkeley.edu

Mail List, Web Server maintenance, June 30 6pm

June 30, 2014 by Rob McNicholas

The Department’s mailing list server (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu) and web servers (www.eecs.berkeley.edu, apps.eecs.berkeley.edu) will be patched and rebooted tonight, June 30 2014, at 6pm. Downtime is expected to be less than 10 minutes.

During this outage the web interfaces will be unavailable, and incoming and outgoing mail will be temporarily delayed. No mail will be lost.
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Many IRIS Services Down for Patching, 6pm Tonight

June 5, 2014 by Rob McNicholas

Another [OpenSSL bug was announced today](http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20140605.txt), so many IRIS services will be briefly down for patching tonight starting at 6pm. This includes www.eecs, iris.eecs, lists.eecs, jabber.eecs, and apps.eecs. Each service will be down for a few minutes between 6pm and 7pm tonight, June 5, 2014.

Resolved as of 2014-06-05 21:09:00

Retiring SSLv2 on Department Websites

March 14, 2014 by Rob McNicholas

The SSLv2 protocol is considered insecure, and support for it will be removed from the Department’s webservers on Friday morning, March 14, 2014.

All modern web browsers support and prefer the SSLv3 or TLSv1 protocols, which are still supported, so no impact is expected.

Resolved as of 2014-03-14 09:21:00

SSL Certificate Updates for Department Web Servers Dec 12, 6pm

December 12, 2013 by Rob McNicholas

New SSL certificates will be installed on the Department web server (www.eecs.berkeley.edu & www.cs.berkeley.edu), the Department Mailing List server (lists.eecs.berkeley.edu), and the IRIS web server (iris.eecs.berkeley.edu) on Dec 12 beginning at 6pm. Each server will experience an outage of a few seconds while its certificate is replaced and the server restarted.

These new certificates will be valid until December, 2016.

Resolved as of 2013-12-12 18:30:00

EECS Department Websites down

August 2, 2013 by IRIS Staff

Starting around 11:20PM tonight, both of the EECS department websites, http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/ and http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/, became unreachable. Staff are looking into the problem, but no known cause is apparent at this time.
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Web, Mailing Lists, Jabber patching Wednesday, June 12

June 12, 2013 by Rob McNicholas

Because June 11th is “Patch Tuesday”, the Department’s web servers, mailing list server, and jabber server will be patched and rebooted at 7am PDT Wednesday, June 12th, 2013. Total downtime is expected to be just a few minutes.

This will affect the following public-facing IRIS services:

www.eecs.berkeley.edu
www.cs.berkeley.edu
lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
apps.eecs.berkeley.edu
iris.eecs.berkeley.edu
wiki.eecs.berkeley.edu

as well as all the below sites which are hosted on www.eecs.berkeley.edu. Please send any questions to [the IRIS helpdesk](http://iris.eecs.berkeley.edu/help).

Websites also affected by this brief outage:

aima.eecs.berkeley.edu
autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
basics.eecs.berkeley.edu
bavm2010.eecs.berkeley.edu
bayesianlogic.cs.berkeley.edu
bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
bjc.eecs.berkeley.edu
blackouts.eecs.berkeley.edu
bnrg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
brass.cs.berkeley.edu
byob.eecs.berkeley.edu
c-bicc.cs.berkeley.edu
cc05.cs.berkeley.edu
cognitivecomputing2007.eecs.berkeley.edu
crest.berkeley.edu
cs4hs.berkeley.edu
csedday.berkeley.edu
daedalus.CS.Berkeley.EDU
deter.CS.Berkeley.EDU
droidblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
endeavour.CS.Berkeley.EDU
forms4usall.CS.Berkeley.EDU
gasnet.cs.berkeley.edu
graphics.eecs.berkeley.edu
harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu
hdp.eecs.berkeley.edu
i3.CS.Berkeley.EDU
iceberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu
intelli-sec.cs.berkeley.edu
iptps03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
istcsc.cs.berkeley.edu
itcs.cs.berkeley.edu
iwqos03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
javasketch.cs.berkeley.edu
lithonet.eecs.berkeley.edu
mobicom2003.CS.Berkeley.EDU
nanophotonics.eecs.berkeley.edu
nano.eecs.berkeley.edu
nlp.cs.berkeley.edu
nonlinear.eecs.berkeley.edu
oasis.CS.Berkeley.EDU
obrien.berkeley.edu
Ocala.CS.Berkeley.EDU
OpenNetLab.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
optoelectronics.eecs.berkeley.edu
orange.eecs.berkeley.edu
osq.cs.berkeley.edu
overmind.cs.berkeley.edu
powersoc2012.org
power.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
quantum.cs.berkeley.edu
rv2011.eecs.berkeley.edu
safetp.cs.berkeley.edu
sahara.CS.Berkeley.EDU
security.cs.berkeley.edu
simons.berkeley.edu
sipc.eecs.berkeley.edu
syslunch.CS.Berkeley.EDU
tenet.berkeley.edu
theory.eecs.berkeley.edu
tier-share.cs.berkeley.edu
titanium.cs.berkeley.edu
tracehost.cs.berkeley.edu
ucbvax.berkeley.edu
webblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
webtp.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu
www-cryo.eecs.berkeley.edu
www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
www-w2k.cs.berkeley.edu
www-wavelet.eecs.berkeley.edu
xisa.cs.berkeley.edu
zadeh.cs.berkeley.edu

Resolved as of 2013-06-12 07:10:00

Web, Mailing Lists, Jabber patching Wednesday, May 15th

May 15, 2013 by Rob McNicholas

Because May 14th is “Patch Tuesday”, the Department’s web servers, mailing list server, and jabber server will be patched and rebooted at 7am Wednesday, May 15th [1]. Total downtime is expected to be just a few minutes.

This will affect the following public-facing servers:

www.eecs.berkeley.edu
www.cs.berkeley.edu
lists.eecs.berkeley.edu
apps.eecs.berkeley.edu
iris.eecs.berkeley.edu

aima.eecs.berkeley.edu
autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
autoconfig.eecs.berkeley.edu
autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
autodiscover.eecs.berkeley.edu
basics.eecs.berkeley.edu
bavm2010.eecs.berkeley.edu
bayesianlogic.cs.berkeley.edu
bitblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
bjc.eecs.berkeley.edu
blackouts.eecs.berkeley.edu
bnrg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
brass.cs.berkeley.edu
byob.eecs.berkeley.edu
c-bicc.cs.berkeley.edu
cc05.cs.berkeley.edu
cognitivecomputing2007.eecs.berkeley.edu
crest.berkeley.edu
cs4hs.berkeley.edu
csedday.berkeley.edu
daedalus.CS.Berkeley.EDU
deter.CS.Berkeley.EDU
droidblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
eecs.org
endeavour.CS.Berkeley.EDU
forms4usall.CS.Berkeley.EDU
gasnet.cs.berkeley.edu
graphics.eecs.berkeley.edu
harmonia.cs.berkeley.edu
hdp.eecs.berkeley.edu
i3.CS.Berkeley.EDU
iceberg.CS.Berkeley.EDU
idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu
idsg.eecs.berkeley.edu
intelli-sec.cs.berkeley.edu
iptps03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
istcsc.cs.berkeley.edu
itcs.cs.berkeley.edu
iwqos03.CS.Berkeley.EDU
javasketch.cs.berkeley.edu
lithonet.eecs.berkeley.edu
mobicom2003.CS.Berkeley.EDU
nanophotonics.eecs.berkeley.edu
nano.eecs.berkeley.edu
nlp.cs.berkeley.edu
nonlinear.eecs.berkeley.edu
oasis.CS.Berkeley.EDU
obrien.berkeley.edu
Ocala.CS.Berkeley.EDU
OpenNetLab.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
optoelectronics.eecs.berkeley.edu
orange.eecs.berkeley.edu
osq.cs.berkeley.edu
overmind.cs.berkeley.edu
powersoc2012.org
power.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
quantum.cs.berkeley.edu
rv2011.eecs.berkeley.edu
safetp.cs.berkeley.edu
sahara.CS.Berkeley.EDU
security.cs.berkeley.edu
simons.berkeley.edu
sipc.eecs.berkeley.edu
syslunch.CS.Berkeley.EDU
tenet.berkeley.edu
theory.eecs.berkeley.edu
tier-share.cs.berkeley.edu
titanium.cs.berkeley.edu
tracehost.cs.berkeley.edu
ucbvax.berkeley.edu
webblaze.cs.berkeley.edu
webtp.EECS.Berkeley.EDU
www-bisc.cs.berkeley.edu
www-cryo.eecs.berkeley.edu
www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu
www-w2k.cs.berkeley.edu
www-wavelet.eecs.berkeley.edu
xisa.cs.berkeley.edu
zadeh.cs.berkeley.edu

[1] *Please Note: The original version of this news item incorrectly listed the date as May 8th.*

Resolved as of 2013-05-15 07:30:00

Web and mailing list server patching, Apr 10 at 7am

April 10, 2013 by Rob McNicholas

The department’s web server (www.eecs, www.cs), mailing list server (lists.eecs), wiki server (wiki.eecs), application server (apps.eecs) and jabber server (jabber.eecs) will be restarted Wednesday, April 10 at 7am.

On Tuesday evening these servers will have operating system patches installed which require a restart. They will be restarted automatically at 7am Wednesday morning and should be back in service by 7:15am.

These servers will now be patched (and rebooted if necessary) on the morning following first Tuesday of each month, the same schedule as our Windows servers.