Over the past couple of days we have increased the local network bandwidth available to some of the buildings on campus. By rearranging some of our network hardware and making use of previously dormant fiber links, we have made a few upgrades. Prairie View used to have a 100Mbit connection to the campus [...]
This week we have upgraded the spam filtering software on our email servers from SpamAssassin 3.1.3 to SpamAssassin 3.1.6. We also added the OpenProtect SpamAssassin channel to our updated rules. This gives us the SARE rules which should help us catch more of the image based stock spams people see these days. If you [...]
This year we are doing a few extra things for our recent alumni. Since it has been well over 1 year since the class of 2005 graduated, it was time to deactivate those accounts and free up the resources they were using. One new service we are offering this year is the ability [...]
So, a tornado nearly hit Gustavus again. Apparently it just missed us. Some homes and power lines to the west and east were not so lucky. Here are some images: http://pics.smarp.us/main.php?g2_itemId=11509 Once the power went out, the generator that powers Olin hall and the server room is supposed to kick in. Well, this [...]
Wireless is now in place in Southwest hall. Yesterday Ethan, Joel, and I finished installing a total of 14 802.11g wireless access points, about 2 per floor per wing. Initial testing shows that there is now good wireless coverage in most if not all of the dorm. I was able to take my WIFI VOIP [...]
This morning I upgraded our version of Spamassassin from 3.1.1 to 3.1.2. No major changes with this release that I can see. I also ran sa-update to get the most recent patterns and stuff. Hopefully this will help it catch even more of those stock spams we are seeing these days.
It looks like there is a newly discovered vulnerability in MS Word that is being exploited via email. I have not yet seen any sign of this here, but no doubt we will see something soon enough. See the following articles for more information: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1965042,00.asp http://isc.sans.org/diary.php?storyid=1347 http://it.slashdot.org/it/06/05/19/1718203.shtml
From reading the SANS Internet Storm Center Diary, I noticed that Mozilla has relased a new update to Firefox to patch some security holes. At the moment Mozilla does not have any good info about what security holes are patched with this update. Hopefully they are not too critical. I suggest everyone running Firefox 1.5.x tell [...]
For some reason over the weekend a bunch of IMAP and POP3 processes got stuck and made it such that those users could not modify their inbox. I didn’t have a good way to figure out who those users were so I killed all IMAP connections. Therefore this morning a bunch of [...]
Our old WINS server (phoebe.gac.edu) was just not doing the job right these days. In an attempt to improve windows networking on campus this morning we switched to a new WINS server (wins.gac.edu). Our new setup also includes a WINS proxy to help all of our subnets talk to the WINS server in [...]