On 12/1, from approximately 10PM to 12AM, a department GPFS node became unresponsive, causing our FastX and SSH gateways to follow in turn. All services have returned to normal.We apologize for any inconvenience. If you experience any continuing issues connecting to the department via either FastX or SSH, please contact …
The firewall was down between 1am and 4am this morning. All services have returned to normal.If you continue to have connectivity issues, please email problem@cs.brown.edu.
As of 2:45pm the CS website appears to be fully restored to service. CIS is still reporting that service outages continue, so we will keep continue to monitor the situation.
Due to campus-wide service outages, the main sections of the CS Dept website, including the home page, have been inaccessible for an extended period of time today, and remain down. We are monitoring CIS' progress in addressing their issues, and we will ensure that the CS website returns to service …
On Wednesday, Oct. 18th, between 7am and 8am, the Networking Group will be performing a VLAN migration of the Self Managed Newtork (10.116.70.0/24) from vlan 4007 to vlan 3962. There will be a brief network connectivity problem during the maintenance windows for user servers, desktops and laptops on the 10.116.70.0/24 subnet . …
This morning - September 28th - some electricians came to replace some of the lights in the Sunlab. In the process, for reasons that remain unclear to us, they threw some breakers that resulted in every computer in the entire room losing power.We've brought all the computers back online. However, …
Our CIFS file services were unstable between 10pm and midnight tonight when several of our servers failed. This was probably due to a configuration error, and not likely to recur. CIFS services are back now.
Tstaff is working closely with CIS on an ongoing issue course group membership reporting that is affecting tools/scripts that depend on commands like id and groups. (This issue is directly affecting the handin script.)Unfortunately, the problem is not consistent. If you experience an issue where you seem to not be …
Faculty and HTAs can now contact CAP@brown.edu directly for access to their course's quality assurance account. (a.k.a Course Test Account.) If you're in the HTA group for a course that needs a Quality Assurance account, please coordinate with the other members of your group and email CAP@brown.edu (CC'ing problem@cs.brown.edu) for …
In general, there are three basic reasons why you might be having trouble SSH'ing in to the department:Old ssh keys need to be removed from authorized_keys (DSA keys are no longer allowed)Permissions too open, on either the server or the client side (Home, .ssh, id_rsa, authorized_keys)Connecting using the wrong account …