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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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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.

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).

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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/

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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).

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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.

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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).

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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).

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