Archive for 2005Page 3
Lots of students
As you probably already know, Gustavus accepted a few too many students this year. That means more students, staff, and facutly than usual. Which for us means more email, more internet usage, and more network traffic in general. At the last minute they had to convert many open spaces in to new dorm rooms. That […]
Postifx and LDAP issues
Apparently when our LDAP servers are under a bit of load such as when we do a batch update of info and the indexing is slowing things down, our postfix mailserver rejects email saying “status=bounced (unknown user: “username”)”. Which sucks because the person who sent the email will get that bounce message back. In an […]
Core Router Changes
As of 3:15pm today, we have turned on a feature of our core router that allows it to detect and slow the spread of viruses on campus. Therefore if any computer on campus displays virus like behavior ( making connections to lots of different computers within a very short period of time), that computers connection […]
Wahlstrom Hall is Gone
No words necessary. Just enjoy the photos: http://gallery.kvsys.com/wahlstrom You can also see some video here: http://www.keyc.com/article/view/80864/
Email Failure
For an hour or so today our email server was rejecting email. The server would respond with an error that the account does not exist. It turns out that it could not look up users in LDAP because one of our LDAP servers was having a problem handling the load. The LDAP server thought it […]
New LDAP servers
Since our old master ldap server decided to kick the bucket yesterday, we had to scramble a little bit and push out a new ldap setup a little faster than we had planed. However in the end, I think it turned out to be a good thing. We now have 3 ldap servers running on […]
iplanet .htaccess and Safari
For some strange reason we were having a problem with Safari users getting to some of our secure web pages. It turns out that our iplanet web server was not properly reading some of the information in the .htaccess file. We had a line in there for AuthName that had quotes around the value as […]
Southwest Hall Kills Wireless
Not sure what it is yet, but something about the construction of the new Southwest Hall causes the building to totally block all Wi-Fi signals. Ethan and I were over there today to check it out for our self. We went up to the top floor where we could easily see the powerfull tropos wireless […]
Spamassassin Upgrade
Due to security concerns, I upgraded our spamassin servers to the latest version 3.0.4 today. Hopefully that won’t cause any problems. Although spamassin’s role has greatly deminished lately since most spam has been filtered out by postifx before it ever even makes it to spamassin anyway.
Wireless Update
Wireless coverage on campus got a boost today as we upgraded the wireless access point on the roof of Rundstrom. It used to have an old Orinoco wireless card attached to a directional antenna. Now we have installed a new high powered Tropos access point like the ones on International , Pittman, and Norelius. The […]