Core Services

Author: doachs

  • Core Router Changes

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    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

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    doachs

    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

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    doachs

    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

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    doachs

    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

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    doachs

    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

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    doachs

    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

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    doachs

    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

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    doachs

    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…

  • Whoa

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    doachs

    Wow, got a nice little surprise from my home ISP today. Apparently Hickorytech has bumped up their speeds by 300% and kept their prices the same. So I was getting 2Mb down and 384k up. Now they say I am getting 6Mb down and 864k up. Cool. So far all the speed tests show it…

  • South West Hall Network

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    doachs

    Today Ethan and I got started on installing the network hardware in South West Hall. The new building will have a nice 10/100 MBit network with each half of the building having its own 1GBit uplink to the rest of campus. Hopefully that will make the heavy network users in that building next year very…