Network Interruption - Feb 4
- Posted by John Bazik
- on Feb. 4, 2022
Network services were interrupted today starting at 10:45am for about an hour. As 1pm, all systems and services should be back to normal.
Network services were interrupted today starting at 10:45am for about an hour. As 1pm, all systems and services should be back to normal.
All Computer Science services were unavailable from 1pm until 11:30pm today, Sunday, January 30, due to a failure of critical infrastructure.
The CIT building will be closed all day on Tuesday, Jan 11 for a scheduled power outage.
Many active Brown accounts were disabled today, beginning shortly after 12:30pm, causing the loss of access to many Brown and Google services, including email. Restoration of services is continuing this afternoon, and expected to be complete by 5pm.
Scheduled maintenance on the University's Isilon filesystem has unexpectedly caused widespread failures on CS department workstations and some services.
The University-wide FastX license server (run by OIT) experienced an outage earlier today. During the downtime, anyone attempting to start new FastX sessions would have gotten an error stating "All licenses are in use." FastX should be fully functional as of 1:40pm.
Campus-wide networking issues this week affected Computer Science systems and services, causing both downtime and instability.
Starting Wednesday, August 18th through August 27th, we will begin upgrading all tstaff managed linux machines, fastx clusters and compute clusters to Debian 11, aka "Bullseye.” For more information about what is new in bullseye see:https://www.debian.org/
On Monday morning, July 12th, between 7 am and 8am, there will be scheduled downtime for both the FastX cluster and the CS department VPN.After this maintenance window, FastX will use the same authentication mechanism that the department SSH gateway now uses, namely SSH keypairs (see https://cs.brown.edu/about/system/connecting/ssh/). Keys can be …
On June 21st, a week from this Monday, we will be changing the authentication system on our ssh gateway for all users. Instead of entering your University password, you will have to set up an ssh keypair to log in (if you don't have one in place already).Refer to https://cs.brown.edu/about/system/connecting/ssh/ …