Archive for 2006Page 4
Moving Time
Ethan and I decided it was time for a change of scenery. As a result, we have just finished moving from our old office (Olin 132) to our new office (Olin 122). The new office has not been occupied since Kathy left a few months back. It has a nice window and a little more […]
MS Word Vulnerability and Exploit
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
Gustavus WebMail Beta
There is a new version of Gustavus WebMail that is now available for testing. If you use WebMail frequently, please give the new version a try at https://webmail-beta.gac.edu/horde/ If you have any feedback about this new version of WebMail, please send it to webmaster@gustavus.edu. As with many beta’s, access to this service may disappear at […]
More unexpected downtime
At about 2:00pm something happened on the network in the Art building such that by 4:00pm it caused major network issues and our core router was unable to handle the load. As a result all network traffic was unusable. At this time we have it narrowed down to 3 possible ports in the Art building. […]
Downtime – Dead UPS
At about 5:45pm today the UPS in the Carlson Admin building died. As a result all network access to datatel, the admin building, and the student center was down. At about 6:25pm Ethan and I routed the power around the UPS and directly to the wall which restored access. Webadvisor access was unavailable until I […]
Mailserver, Email, Quota and Archived Mail Issues
At about 3:20pm or so yesterday we had an issue with our mailserver. This information from Tami should shed some light on what happened: Yesterday (May4th) a user on campus sent a very large (25 mb) email message to hundreds of users on campus. This message has caused multiple problems for you to be aware […]
Fedora Core 5 and Openldap
After many hours of trial and error, I was finally able to get openldap on FC5 working the way we need it to. I noticed that there are a few differences in the way openldap works on FC5 when compared to the way things were on fc4. In the past when using fc4 the database […]
Spam Filtering
As of this week, all new accounts we create will have spam filtering enabled by default. Our default spam score threshold is 6. Any email scoring higher than 6 will be automatically placed in a mailbox called Filtered_by_GAC. Filtering can be easily changed or disabled by using the email settings webpage.
Secure.gac.edu changed
The DNS entry for secure.gac.edu which used to point to an old solaris box named Zeme has now been changed to point to our new webadvisor servers. We are trying to retire Zeme and this way anyone who has a bookmark to the old webadvisor link will continue to work when our SSL certificate for […]
Mailserver Issues
At about 12:15am Tuesday morning, our email server stopped allowing people to access their inboxes. At about 12:50am I rebooted it, woof.gac.edu, and restored access to email inboxes. The real cause of the problem is still unknown.