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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


1117: Server nachtwacht preventive maintenance

The server nachtwacht reports having a hard drive that will soon fail. We will replace the disk as soon as possible.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Nov 17, 2014 · 

1116: DNS resolver problem

The server that acts within FNWI as first DNS resolver crashed, probably because of a disk becoming defective. This made the network slow or even virtually unusable for a lot of computers in FNWI. Only after a reboot of the server, the problem1 was solved. Monday morning, at the weekly reboot of this server, it would only boot after manually acknowledging the defective disk (problem2), When other servers rebooted at 06:30, a lot of them had problems due to the missing DNS resolver....

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Nov 15, 2014 · 

1115: Fileserver bulk problems

Resolved by a server reboot. Affected network shares: acfiles ARK-Backup Bargerveen Bargerveen-Gebruikers beevee bioniccell bio-orgchem B-Ware-Arnica B-Ware-Dotter B-Ware-Erica B-Ware-Knolrus B-Ware-Lobelia B-Ware-Stratiotes celbio1 celbio2 csgi-archief csg-staf cvi desda ds ehef1 evsf2dataoud evsf2schijf1 femtospin Floron geminstr2 giphouse gissig gmi hfml-backup hfml-backup2 highres impuls introcie isis janvanhest kaartenbak kangoeroe microbiology microbiology2 milkun2 milkun3 milkun5 milkun6 milkun7 milkun7rw molbiol mwstudiereis neuroinf neuroinf2 nfstest nwibackup olympus puc RandomWalkModel Ravon-Algemeen Ravon-Foto Ravon-Projecten secres2 sigma sigmaalmanak sigmacies sigmaexchange sigmasymposium splex spmdata3 spmdata4 spmdata5 spmdata6 spmdata7 stroom thalia ucm vsc vsc1 vsc10 vsc11 vsc12 vsc13 vsc14 vsc15 vsc2 vsc3 vsc4 vsc5 vsc6 vsc7 vsc8 vsc9 vscadmin wiskalg wiskunde

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Nov 12, 2014 · 

1114: Network maintenance in Mercator III north

The network switches in the buildings/floors/locations mentioned above will be replaced. This means that both wired en wireless networks at these locations will be interrupted and network traffic will not be possible. This includes the network for access control, climate control etc.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Nov 11, 2014 · 

1113: Network maintenance in server room Huygens

Because of a software upgrade of the network switches in the buildings/floors/locations mentioned above, these network switches will be rebooted at 06:00h (AM) exactly. This means that both wired en wireless networks at these locations will be interrupted for 10 to 15 minutes and network traffic will not be possible. This includes the network for access control, climate control etc.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Nov 11, 2014 · 

1119: Network problems FNWI

After the network maintenance of 20141111 a single user reported later a problem with the wired network. These problems intensified and grew faculty wide on 20141119 at 13:34 hours. The network switches in the Faculty of Science received so many topology changes of the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) that network traffic often stuttered. By curbing the STP traffic on 20141120 at 15:32 the stuttering disappeared. We still search for the exact cause, probably it is a housing move....

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Nov 11, 2014 · 

1112: Network maintenance in part of Huygens

Because of a software upgrade of the network switches in the buildings/floors/locations mentioned above, these network switches will be rebooted at 06:00h (AM) exactly. This means that both wired en wireless networks at these locations will be interrupted for 10 to 15 minutes and network traffic will not be possible. This includes the network for access control, climate control etc. Locations: Huygens wing 3 all floors Huygens wing 4 all floors Huygens wing 8 all floors Huygens central street between wing 6 and 8 all floors

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Nov 6, 2014 · 

1111: Network maintenance in peripheral buildings

Because of a software upgrade of the network switches in the buildings/floors/locations mentioned above, these network switches will be rebooted on Tuesday morning at 06:00h (AM) exactly. This means that both wired en wireless networks at these locations will be interrupted for 10 to 15 minutes and network traffic will not be possible. This includes the network for access control, climate control etc. Locations: FELIX, HFML, Nanolab, Goudsmit pavillion (NMR), Lab DCN in A-2....

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Nov 4, 2014 · 

1110: Network maintenance in Huygens wing 7

Because of an upgrade of the network switches in the buildings/floors/locations mentioned above, these network switches will be replaced. This means that both wired en wireless networks at these locations will be interrupted and network traffic will not be possible. This includes the network for access control, climate control etc.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Oct 29, 2014 · 

1109: RU network problem

Due to a short DDOS-attack the RU was virtually disconnected from the Internet during ca 7 minutes. All network connected systems may have had problems during that time. Until 15:30 some Eduroam users still had problems acquiring an IP address.

Updated Oct 11, 2022  ·  Bram Daams · Created Oct 29, 2014 ·