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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.
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....
Due to an emergency maintenance, the central microsoft exchange server is unavailable for 4 hours. This may also affect systems that are dependent on exchange. E-mail and calendar functionality is expected to be restored when the maintenance is done around 13:30 Today.
During a routine upgrade of ceph, a bug in the latest version manifested itself and made the ceph manager unreachable. After aborting the upgrade and with help from the ceph-users mailinglist, everything became available again using a workaround.
Because of security issues the last remaining Windows 7 machines wil be disabled, effective 24-03-2021, as member of the Active Directory Domain B-FAC. Please upgrade these computers to a more up-to-date OS.
To change the network of lilo7, we need to reboot this loginserver. If you want a stable connection to a loginserver during this downtime, please use lilo6 or the soon to be taken down lilo5. For more info see the page on C&CZ loginservers.
Yesterday the SSD bootdisk of this VM host reported the first problems. This morning this had the effect of stopping all VMs running on this host. By moving the VMs to a different VM host, the problem has been solved. We will investigate how to best prevent this problem in the future or lessen its impact.
The ISC announced that Saturday February 27 08:00-20:00 major RU network maintenance work will be carried out. This will mean that all RU services will be unavailable several times for at most an hour. This concerns all RU services including those of FNWI/C&CZ: e-mail, VPN, wifi, BASS, OSIRIS, Brightspace, Syllabus+, Corsa, etc.
As of Thursday afternoon, the lilo6 is down due to hardware issues. Because lilo6 was the default linux login server (lilo referred to lilo6), this affected many users of lilo. The impact is limited, because we have alternative lilo’s, namely lilo5 and lilo7. As of March 1st lilo now refers to lilo7, ssh will warn about DNS SPOOFING, which is due to the difference host keys for lilo7 ECDSA SHA256:si3g2elo5m6TShx3PjX0+vF50pZ8NK/iXz/ESB+ZeP0
The central DNS servers for ru.nl for external requests had problems, because they received too many requests, which resulted in science.ru.nl and others not being found. DNS names within ru.nl then will not resolve to an IP address. We enlarged some TTLs (Time-To+lives) to try to lessen the problem. These small TTLs were meant to be able to move a service to a new server in case of problems, but now they just make the problem bigger....
DNS-servers for ru.nl did not serve information about subdomains such as science.ru.nl. Thus no DNS-name will resolve to an IP address at FNWI. A workaround is to use as DNS servers: 131.174.224.4 en 8.8.8.8. If you try to connect to a service for the first time after ca 11:15, you’ll get an error like: “No such domain” or “Cannot resolve”. Restarting RU DNS servers at 12:45 may have fixed the problem....
Services will not be available for a while because of a GitLab and Mattermost upgrade.