Month: April 2026
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What happens when the Mac Admin pushes out an OS upgrade
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Ever wondered what our internet traffic graphs look like when the Mac Administrator tells a whole bunch of computers to download the upgrade to Tahoe? We get a very large spike in #IPv6 traffic, that’s what we get. 🙂 Possibly setting a new record in the process. Interesting that it seems to have split the…
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Campus Internet Outage – April 8, 2026
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During the evening of April 7th, a piece of hardware at the ISP that provides our internet connection failed. Because we have redundancy built into our connection, the internet remained reachable from campus. That is until the ISP attempted to replace the failed hardware at about 2:20pm on April 8th. For some reason the replacement…