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We will reboot clusternodes and possibly upgrade them from older ubuntu versions to ubuntu 24.04 in the last week of August 2026. If you have clusternodes and would like to plan for an upgrade from ubuntu 22.04 to ubuntu 24.04, please let us know
Our upstream certificate provider HARICA mis-issued several certificates (details) and is in the process of revoking said certificates. When manually renewing the certificate for helpdesk.science.ru.nl, we encountered a configuration oversight and accidentally misconfigured the webserver. This resulted in a redirection loop. We restored the working configuration from backup and reloaded the configuration for the webserver. Update Several thousand more cerficates have again been revoked. This is also led to HARICA being overloaded, because every one is trying to get their certificates re-issued. We are trying to update the certificates where we can.
Due to errors on the filesystem /vol/astro7, we had to reboot the fileserver comas2, and take in offline to run repairs on the filesystems. During those repairs /vol/astro7 and /vol/astro6 are not available. Last time this happend it took 24 hours to complete
After the package for gitlab was updated, the service did not come up again, due to a problem with post-install scripts. After rebooting the package installation could finish and service was restored.
Due to a change in the network setup the dhcp servers for the 25 gbit networks (which are being changed to new switches and a new management method) the dns servers were unreachable by the dhcp servers. This caused the dhcp servers to be unable to resolve the names in the configuration to their ip addresses. It was fixed by a change in the central firewall.
A package upgrade broke the internal networking on our ubuntu 20.04 docker container VMs. Internal name resolution does not work anymore.
We have updated the authentication process for login server lilo7 (lilo7.science.ru.nl) as part of a test. As of now, your ~/.ssh/authorized_keys file on lilo7 is ignored. This change is designed to prevent bad actors from easily gaining persistent access. The good news is that we can now grant access to lilo7 from outside the previously very restricted IP ranges. To gain access from a new IP range, you will need to provide us with your public SSH key and the IP range you will be connecting from. ...
De following Science services will be placed behind eduVPN. This means if you want to have continued access, you must use this VPN. De volgende Science services worden achter eduVPN gezet. DHZ/DIY SMTP (mail sending) LILOs Webmail If you have questions are experience problems with setting up eduVPN, please contact our helpdesk.
Due to circumstances we are forced to shut the Science VPN with immediately effect. See this news article where we previously said this would happen on December the 1st. If you have questions are experience problems with setting up EduVPN, please contact our helpdesk.
The webmail interface called “Rainloop” has been permanently shut down, due to the upstream project not being maintained anymore. We don’t have the resources to fix security issues or take over the open source project ourselves.
The RADIUS service was temporarily unavailable after an automatic update of the FreeRADIUS package. RADIUS is used for authentication of Eduroam, OpenVPN, and Vpnsec when using Science accounts. The issue was automatically resolved when our RADIUS configuration was pushed to the RADIUS servers.
Due to a CPU crash, the milton fileserver was down overnight. After a manual reboot the server was ok again.