repo.anl-external.org is down
We are working to bring it back up. We’re hopeful it will be back online within the hour, I will send updates if that changes.
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CELS Shared Services Systems Group
Dispatches from the Geeks
Things are mostly back
CIS successfully revived our router, and most MCS hosts and services are back online. We’re still looking over the monitoring to identify what are actual issues vs. transient errors that will self-correct (some servers may not be properly syncing their time via NTP, for example), and will be addressing them as we find them. If …
MCS Network Outage to continue
The unexpected power issue that caused this outage has caused a failure in a critical component of the MCS router. We’re currently working with CIS on getting this back online, either with a replacement supervisor card, or an ad-hoc temporary solution until a replacement can be installed. We’re currently estimating another couple of hours of …
Issue with wired desktop network
Late last week, we instituted a change in the network configuration for desktop networks. This particular change came with an unintended side effect that is resulting in some people’s computers not getting an address from the network when plugged in. In the past, if a host was not registered with us and was plugged into …
Primary Unix NFS fileserver back in operation
Greetings, At 3:33 PM today the fileserver that serves unix home directories unexpectedly went offline for about one hour. The system appears stable and all services should be available now, if your workstation is misbehaving you should try rebooting it. If it’s still having issues or if you notice anything else out of order please …
Unplanned network outage on Oct. 02, 2014
Last night, shortly before 6:00 pm CT one of the network routers in building 240 lost connectivity to another in 221. This caused a breakdown in large portions of the lab’s network fabric, both internally and externally. CIS tracked down and fixed the problem shortly after 8:00 pm CT. The result was that many, if …
"Shell Shock" bash exploit updates
Many of you are learning of an exploit to the bash shell that was revealed last week, so I thought it would be worthwhile to post a summary of what’s been happening and what you need to do. First up, the exploit in question allows an attacker to take advantage of some poor coding in …