Tuesday afternoon and evening, November 19, we had a disruption of DNS resolution for the eecs.berkeley.edu domain on the campus nameservers. This meant that many systems outside of the EECS network were temporarily unable to resolve *.eecs.berkeley.edu hostnames — so people may have been temporarily unable to reach EECS websites or deliver email to some @eecs.berkeley.edu addresses.
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Domain Name Service
New DNS Nameserver: themis.eecs
System administrators in EECS may be familiar with our DNS nameservers cronus and rhea. We now have a new nameserver, physically located in Cory Hall, named themis. If your systems are typical DHCP clients, or you don’t use the EECS wired network, then you should have nothing to change.
We are planning to replace and retire rhea according to the following schedule:
- Thu Oct 15 — We will update our DHCP configuration, telling Cory Hall DHCP clients to use themis and cronus, and telling other DHCP clients to use cronus and themis.
- November/December — We will monitor any continued usage of rhea for DNS, and periodically alert system administrators so they can update their systems to use themis instead.
- early January — We will retire rhea, but will point its name and IP address at cronus.
November IRIS Server Patching
Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, November 14th, 2023. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, November 15th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, November 15th, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs will be patched and rebooted Tuesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Wednesday, November 15th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
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Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 10th, 2023. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.
PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, October 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, October 11th, depending on additional software updates.
Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs will be patched and rebooted Tuesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.
On Wednesday, October 11th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).
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Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm. login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for downtime from 10:30pm to 11pm. Other Linux hosts (e.g. DNS servers cronus and rhea, and SMTP server gateway.eecs) may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting approximately 6-7pm.
We expect actual downtimes to be shorter than scheduled.
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Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.
rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.
The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.
We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.
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Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.
rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.
The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.
We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.
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Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.
rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.
The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.
We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.
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Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.
rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.
The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.
We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.
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Various Linux servers will be down for patching and needed reboots to activate changes delivered by some RHEL patches.
login.EECS.Berkeley.EDU is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
The departmental dhcp server is scheduled for downtime from 6:30am to 7am.
cronus one of the departmental DNS and time servers is scheduled for downtime from 6:45am-7:00am.
rhea the other departmental DNS and time server is scheduled for downtime from 7:00am-7:15am.
The departmental authenticating outgoing SMTP server gateway.eecs is scheduled for downtime from 7:30am to 7:45am.
We expect actual downtimes to be less than scheduled.
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