Author: doachs

Although solen has been workin great for the past 180+ days, it looks like we have no choice but to reboot it. If you are wondering why, the reason is that netatalk has stoped working. Restarting the netatalk daemon does not appear to fix it. For some reason the afpd process just gets stuck. Hopefully…

Last night our res-hall network was extremely slow and flakey. There appeared to be lots of broadcast traffic and pings were timing out 80% of the time. After disconecting one dorm at a time, I discoverd that one dorm was causing the problem. I eventually traced it back to one network jack. Still not sure…

For some reason early this morning an email that was passed to spamassassin appears to have caused all of our spamd processes to lock up. Therefore email was not being checked for spam. This means you probably all got way more spam today that normal. Sorry about that. I have never seen spamassassin lock up…

Well, there have been lots of updates here at GAC today. First, this morning we updated our packeteer from 6.2 to 7.0 which gives us some new features and should provide even better packet shaping. Second, we upgraded all the hubs in Pittman to bran new switches. That should improve the networking in that building…

Add one more wireless access point on campus to the list. We now have a decent wireless signal inside the Guest House. Now we can actually offer our guests decent wireless internet access. Yay.