Core Services

Category: GAC IT

  • More phishing attempts this weekend

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    doachs

    As many of you noticed, there was another batch of phishing email sent to Gustavus email accounts over the weekend.  Thank you to all of you who forwarded us the email.  Your quick response allowed us to block any replies to those messages and keep the users who fell for it from divulging their passwords.…

  • Mailserver Issues Last Night

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    doachs

    Yesterday at about 5:00pm an email was sent to all students with a very large email attachment.  As a result of that email some of our mailservers ran out of disk space causing users to see a variety of issues with their email. Thursday morning we were able to free up some disk space and…

  • More spam than usual

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    doachs

    I noticed that I was getting much more spam in my inbox in the past day so I looked into it a little further.  It turns out that one of our 4 spamassassin servers was stuck and not filtering email.  As a result many messages were not being checked for spam.  Hence the increased spam…

  • Phishing email sent to Gustavus accounts yesterday

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    doachs

    Last night a large batch of phishing email was sent from “Gac Team” gacteam@bellsouth.net to many Gustavus email addresses. The message looked like this: VERIFY YOUR GAC EMAIL ACCOUNT NOW Dear Gac Email Account Owner, This message is from Gac messaging center to all Gac email account owners. We are currently upgrading our data base…

  • Internet outage this afternoon

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    doachs

    For about 20 minutes this afternoon starting sometime after 1:00pm most of the internet was inaccessible.  As far as I can tell the problem was not with us or our internet connection but was most likely somewhere a little bit farther up stream.  My traceroutes were showing lots of issues past our ISP but possibly…

  • Wireless added to Fine Arts Music

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    doachs

    A new wireless access point was added in the basement of the music building to help give coverage to the areas near the Bjorling concert hall.  My initial test show that this one access point covers the hallway from the south end of the Bjorling concert hall all the way to the middle of the…

  • Homepages webserver upgraded

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    doachs

    As of about 3:00pm this afternoon I have moved homepages.gac.edu to a new server.  The old server was running on Fedora Core release 4 with PHP 5.0.4.  The new server is based on CentOS 5 and PHP 5.1.6. Hopefully this will not introduce any unforeseen  issues with users homepages, but if it does, please let…

  • Proxy Servers Upgraded

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    doachs

    For a long time we have been using a pair of very old Sun servers ( the old Solen and Ra ) as our proxy servers.  Well today was finally the day to train in their replacements.  At about 11:30am today I flipped the switch so that people began using the two new proxy servers. …

  • New internet connection growing pains

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    doachs

    After many weeks of waiting today was finally the day we were able to cut over from our 40Mbit HickoryTech internet connection to our shiny new 100Mbit Onvoy internet connection. As is the case with many new things, there are a few bugs to be worked out.  One such bug came to light tonight.  At…

  • Internet2 speed more than doubled

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    doachs

    As of this afternoon we are now one step closer to getting our 1Gbit/s Internet2 connection (should be implemented by the end of the semester). Up until today we had a 45Mbit/s Internet2 connection. Today that connection was upgraded to 100Mbit/s. That means traffic flowing between Gustavus and other Internet2 connected institutions such as the…