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October IRIS Server Patching

October 4, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, October 8th, 2024. 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 9th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus, themis, and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

On Wednesday, October 9th, 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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September IRIS Server Patching

September 6, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, September 10th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, September 11th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

Linux servers lists.eecs, iris2.eecs (for access to the network and roster databases), and login.eecs/login-mfa.eecs will be patched and rebooted Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

On Wednesday, September 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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August IRIS Server Patching

August 9, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, August 13th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, August 14th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, 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 Wednesday night. DNS servers cronus and rhea may also be briefly unavailable while rebooting at approximately 8:00pm Tuesday.

Updates to our VMware servers on Tuesday night may mean brief service interruptions to various IRIS services hosted on virtual machines.

On Wednesday, August 14th, 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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July IRIS Server Patching

July 5, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, July 9th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, July 10th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, July 10th, 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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June IRIS Server Patching

June 7, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, June 11th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, June 12th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, June 12th, 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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Unplanned East Campus Power Outage

May 22, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Just before 6:30pm, the campus experienced a wide-spread power outage. Most of the east side of campus remains without power at the time of this writing. There is currently no estimate for when power will be restored.

IRIS services in Soda and Cory will be either shut down imminently, or will soon become unavailable, as UPS power is used up. Once power is safely restored to campus, we will work to bring services back online to the best of our abilities.

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May IRIS Server Patching

May 10, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, May 14th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, May 15th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, 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, May 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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lists.eecs.berkeley.edu mail delivery issues

April 26, 2024 by Rob McNicholas

We have had reports of some undelivered mail sent via mailing lists on lists.eecs.berkeley.edu. Upon investigating, Google / bMail is refusing to accept some email sent from lists.eecs.berkeley.edu, beginning early on April 24th . We believe this is due to some changes made at the campus level intended to improve mail reliability and reduce spam. We are working with the people running this project to try to determine the cause of the problem and arrive at a resolution.

If you believe you have been impacted by this, any reports of definitely missed emails would be helpful to us in assessing the scope of this problem.

In the meantime, we suggest that any important or time critical emails be also sent directly to individuals instead of relying entirely on mailing lists. For important emails that have been sent already, you may wish to follow up with a phone call or email sent directly to their bMail account.

This article will be updated as we learn more.

Update April 29, 4pm: This problems seems to have resolved itself. There was no definitive diagnosis unfortunately. We will continue to monitor delivery rates on select mailing lists.

April IRIS Server Patching

April 7, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, April 9th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, April 10th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, April 10th, 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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March IRIS Server Patching

March 9, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, March 12th, 2024. Various IRIS Windows and Linux servers will be patched and rebooted Tuesday or Wednesday.

PRINT, WINTERM and WDS will automatically patch and reboot Wednesday, March 13th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable until 10:00am Wednesday, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, March 13th, 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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