Our smtp mailservers were under attack. In order to prevemt other problems, our configuration limits the number of connections that can be kept open at the same time. We cannot easily distinguish between connections by the attacker(s) and by regular users. When this limit is reached, no new connections can be made. Therefore sending e-mail using our mailservers can take a long time or will not work at all. There’s a good chance that your IP address will be blocked (max. 1 hour), e.g. if you use loginname@science.ru.nl after June 8, 16:25. ...

The datacenter cooling failed around 07:00 this morning. To prevent damage all non-essential systems are being turned off (clusternodes first). Most fileservers have also been turned off. Due to the urgency, some systems that have been turned off may not be in the location with the problem (Huygens HG04.070). Around 07:50 the cooling system came online again, about 30 minutes later the temperature dropped to under 25 degrees Celsius. After ca. 8:35, we started turning systems back on, starting with fileservers and later clusternodes as well. This is now nearly finished. Some hardware cannot easily be managed remotely so that will take a bit longer until someone can turn on the power manually.

On Saturday July 22, all power, including emergency power, in the Huygens building will be switched off for planned maintenance from 08:00 until 12:30. If all goes well, power will be available from 12:30. We expect to need at least a few hours to get all Science services up again. During this time, all but a few basic services will be unavailable. Most servers will be turned off the Friday before. We will attempt to maintain basic DNS/DHCP, SMTP(mail) and license services, but for instance the science mailboxes, home directories, websites, VPN, fileservers, Gitlab, loginservers and compute clusters will not be available during the off period.

RU ILS Connectivity announced that Friday April 21 between 18:30 and 20:30 the RU network would be separated from the internet for a period of ca 30 minutes, in order to carry out maintenance.

Friday`April 21 at 10 o’clock C&CZ will commence a GitLab server migration. During the migration, working with Gitlab will not be possible. Because Mattermost is running on the same installation of Gitlab, it will be unavailable during the process as well. We expect things to be up and running again around noon.

RU ILS Connectivity announced that network maintenance will be carried out next Wednesday evening that will cause short disturbances of network connectivity for wired and wireless systems in and around wing 8 Huygens on all floors. For wired network outlets, one can check whether they will be affected by looking at the outlet number (starting with 113- for affected systems) or visiting FNWI ethergids.

RU ILS Connectivity announced that network maintenance will be carried out next Monday evening that will cause short disturbances of network connectivity for wired and wireless systems in and around wing 3 Huygens on all floors except the ground floor. For wired network outlets, one can check whether they will be affected by looking at the outlet number (starting with 107- for affected systems) or visiting FNWI ethergids.

RU ILS Connectivity announced that network maintenance will be carried out next Wednesday evening that will cause short disturbances of network connectivity for wired and wireless systems in and around wing 7 Huygens on all floors except the ground floor. For wired network outlets, one can check whether they will be affected by looking at the outlet number (starting with 110- for affected systems) or visiting FNWI ethergids.

March 20, the poster printer kamerbreed started producing bad colours. The new print heads that were received a fw days later didn’t solve the problem. Therefore we called for a repair, that will probably be scheduled in the week of April 17. In the meantime, users that need posters could go to Radboud Post&Print.

RU ILS Connectivity announced that network maintenance will be carried out next Monday evening that will cause short disturbances of network connectivity for wired and wireless systems in and around wing 3 Huygens and in tunnels/basement of the former A1 building. For wired network outlets, one can check whether they will be affected by looking at the outlet number (starting with 109- and 73- for affected systems) or visiting FNWI ethergids.