Core Services

Author: doachs

  • VIRUS

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    doachs

    Sorry, wish I could update everyone but I am too busy and tired right now. As you probably know, a good sized virus outbreak occured on campus starting at about 7:20pm Monday night. Ok, back to work….

  • Wireless

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    doachs

    Outdoor wireless coverage on campus should have increased significantly yesterday with the addition of another high powered wireless access point on the roof of Pittman Hall. That increases the number of these units to 3. One on Norelius, one on International, and one on Pittman. Now you can probably stroll all the way down hello…

  • Spamassassin update

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    doachs

    Just in case anyone cares, I have updated our spam checking software (spamassassin) to the most recent version, 2.64. So far on my account it has resulted in spam getting even higher scores. I hope this update works as well for everyone else.

  • Wireless Changes

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    doachs

    For those of you who regularly use a wireless laptop or some other wireless device on campus, you may have noticed that we have lots of different wireless networks. In an effort to help wireless users roam about the campus from one access point to another, we have begun an effort to configure all the…

  • Email Delay

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    doachs

    At around 11:00pm last night our mailserver stopped delivering email. It was still accepting messages and storing them to be delivered later. I restarted that process this morning just before 8:00am and now it is trying to catch up and deliver the more than 16,000 messages it has waiting. So if anyone is wondering why…

  • Webmail

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    doachs

    To help address everyones need to have access to their data wherever they are, we have begun playing with a different webmail (and much more) application called Horde (horde.org). Some of you may already have heard of it or have used it elsewhere. The webmail piece, called IMP, is a really nice web interface to…

  • AOL email

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    doachs

    Last week we had some issues with AOL rejecting email from our mailserver due to us allowing too many spam messages to be sent from student computers. On Tuesday we were able to get on AOL’s whitelist. Here is what their email says: Work has been completed on your Whitelist request and should become effective…

  • Faster Email

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    doachs

    The performance of our email server has been anything but great the past few weeks. To help speed things up we ordered some nice new 15000 RPM disks a few weeks ago. Well, we finally got them and were able to install them today. Initial results look promising. Hopefully email performance will be great from…

  • AOL rejecting our email

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    doachs

    Last week it appears that AOL put us on their blacklist. That means that any email sent from Gustavus via our default mail server was being rejected by AOL. The reason they are rejecting us is because a number of student machines have been sending out spam. Most likely these machines were infected with one…

  • Norelius Back Online

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    doachs

    Sunday evening something happened in Norelius that pretty much brought down the entire network. We are not sure exactly what it was. It was still causing problems around 7:30am this morning but by 8:00am whatever was causing the problem has disappeared.