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Service Interruptions

1407: NFS problems under investigation

When we moved the gateways of our networks from the old location to the new firewalls, we have received some complaints about NFS filesystems having slowness, longer delays or unavailability. In general NFS should never be a requirement for a clusternode job if you can avoid it, because this I/O is always much slower than local I/O from /scratch. We are investigating how we can optimise the network to resolve this issue, but we are hard pressed to know the exact cause of the problem....

1415: Clusternode maintenance day - February 6th 2026

Every half year we do clusternode maintenance, with at least a package ugprade and a reboot, but sometimes other maintenance can happen, such as changes in filesystems or network configurations. The upcoming date for this maintenance is February 6th, 2026 (Friday)

Resolved Reports

1306: Outgoing mail not possible after successful phishing attack

After several persons fell for a phishing email, several tens of thousands of emails were sent via Science accounts. This causes our mail servers to be blocked by several mail servers on the internet. We are currently cleaning SPAM mails that are still in the outgoing queues. After that, the mail servers will be made available again. We are considering measures to prevent this form of nuisance.

1305: Jitsi certificate mismatch

Jitsi was unavailable after the reboot, because one of the web-interface configurations was still referring to an older certiticate.

1304: Jitsi certificate expired

The certificate for jitsi.science.ru.nl expired last week and was replaced, but a sub-service was still using a copy of the older certificate. Users were able to open the frontend, but not able to start a meeting. The problem was resolved by updating the copy of the sub-service.

1303: Adobe Acrobat Pro DC license problem

Since midnight there is a problem using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC, you are asked to activate the license. ILS is working on a solution. You can open PDFs using Adobe Reader or some other PDF reader. See: https://meldingen.ru.nl/detail.php?id=1333&lang=en&tg=0&f=0&ii for the original notice.

1302: Ceph storage interruption

Just before 23:09 quite a lot of ceph storage nodes became unreachable. This seems to be due to one of the redundant links between two datacenter locations failing for about 4 seconds. This triggered a whole slew of ceph osd processes being killed off and not starting again. A generic configuration change made for all our servers generated an extra interface, which confused some of the osd processes (depending on interface ordering) when starting up....

1301: Eduroam wifi down during upgrade

ILS wifi management notified us that they will upgrade the software of wireless access points, because security flaws have been addressed in the latest release. The maintenance ends on 2022-10-21 01:30. Source: meldingen.ru.nl

1300: Mail problems because of spam run after phishing

Some time ago, some Science users fell for a phishing mail, therefore their account could be misused by spammers to send mail through our mailservers. Therefore our mailservers ended up in blacklists yesterday evening. Some mails could therefore not be delivered to other servers, that mail was returned to the sender. This morning we removed the IP addresses of our servers from several blacklists, we think that the problems are resolved now....

1298: Eduroam: Tuesday September 27 23:30 1 hour down for maintenance

ILS network management announced: Tuesday September 27 23:30 maintenance is carried out on the Eduroam wireless network in FNWI buildings a.o. In most cases connectivity will be interrupted for at least 30 and at most 60 minutes.

1299: Friday September 23 18:30-22:30 RU firewall maintenance

ILS network management announced: Friday September 23 18.30 – 22.30 network maintenance is carried out on the DMZ and SRV firewalls. Connectivity interruptions of 20 to 40 seconds are expected. In case of problems, interruptions of 5 to 10 minutes might occur.

1297: Network switches failed after a power failure on campus

A few campus-wide dips in the power supply made network and telephony unusable for about 15 minutes, except in server rooms where UPSs guarantee the power supply. Because 7 modules of desktop switches in Huygens/HFML/Felix had become defective, several hundred network outlets will only have worked again after the relevant switch module had been replaced.