Mailing Lists

Mailing List service

February IRIS Server Patching

February 9, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, February 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, February 14th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, February 14th, 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, February 14th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

[Read more…]

Unexpected Power Outage at Campus Datacenter

February 8, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

A test of temporary generator power at the campus Data Center didn’t go well, and the Data Center was shut down at about 11am this morning. This affects a number of IRIS services, such as lists.eecs (mailing lists) and IRIS apps (account and system registration requests), and is also having an impact on wifi authentication.

Please see the Berkeley Status Dashboard for updates: https://berkeley.statusdashboard.com/event/192049/

[Read more…]

January IRIS Server Patching

January 5, 2024 by Lars Rohrbach

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

On Wednesday, January 10th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

[Read more…]

Mailing List maintenance, Wed 6-6:30pm

January 2, 2024 by Rob McNicholas

The Department’s mailing list server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu will be offline for maintenance beginning at 6pm on Wednesday, January 3 2024. The server should be back up no later than 6:30pm. During this time the web interface will not be accessible, and mail to mailing lists will be delayed. This maintenance is to prepare for the January 4th power outage.

[Read more…]

December IRIS Server Patching

December 11, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

Microsoft will release their patches for the month on Tuesday, December 12th, 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, December 13th, at 3:00am. WINTERM may be unavailable till 10:00am Wednesday, December 13th, depending on additional software updates.

On Wednesday, December 13th, the departmental DHCP server is scheduled for downtime from 10pm to 10:30pm (actual downtime is expected to be shorter than scheduled).

[Read more…]

November IRIS Server Patching

November 13, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

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.

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).

[Read more…]

October IRIS Server Patching

October 6, 2023 by Lars Rohrbach

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.

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).

[Read more…]

EECS Mailing Lists, IRIS applications maintenance, May 9, 6pm

May 9, 2023 by Rob McNicholas

The Department’s Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu and the IRIS application server iris2.eecs.berkeley.edu will be undergoing maintenance tonight, Tuesday May 9th, from 6pm to 7pm. The mailing lists and the IRIS Account & Network registration applications will be unavailable during this time. Any mail sent to lists.eecs.berkeley.edu during this time will be held and delivered after maintenance is complete.

Please direct any questions to help@eecs.berkeley.edu.

[Read more…]

Emergency Maintenance, IRIS Mailing Lists RT

February 27, 2023 by Rob McNicholas

Due to an issue with our MySQL server, the EECS Mailing List server lists.eecs.berkeley.edu and the IRIS Internal ticket tracking system will be down until approximately 2pm today, Feb 27.

UPDATE

[2023-02-27 | robm ]

Maintenance has been completed.

Resolved as of Mon Feb 27 13:47:35 PST 2023

Dec 14: Service interruption (login.eecs, lists.eecs)

December 14, 2022 by Lars Rohrbach

We are investigating an apparent issue with our VMware infrastructure, which is affecting various IRIS systems, including access to login.eecs, rt.eecs (our ticketing system), and lists.eecs (our maillist server).

[Read more…]