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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

1108: FNWI network problem

The router that regulates all IP traffic between subnets in the Huygens building and surrounding buildings, became too busy. All network traffic, especially UDP had problems. ISC network admins reduced the load by simplifying the ACLs and reducing logging. At about 12:00 the problem was temporarily solved. C&CZ will do a further inspection of all ACLs, with the aim to reduce the load on the router without reducing security for connected systems....

1106: Disturbance of Vodafone VWO data traffic

On the ISC website we read: Radboud University agreed on a new mobile telephone contract with - again - provider Vodafone. For this purpose, on Wednesday, September 24th during daytime the Radboud subscriptions will be adjusted. Employees with a Vodafone mobile wille have no disturbance in calling or being called that day. But the Vodafone data network might be temporarily unavailable. To restore the data connection it is necessary to turn the mobile phone off and then on again....

1107: DNS resolver problem

The server that acts within FNWI as first DNS resolver crashed. This made the network virtually unusable for a lot of computers in FNWI. Only after a reboot of the server, the problem was solved. Measures to reduce the inconvenience of such a crash and to make such a crash less likely, have been partly taken and are partly in preparation.

1105: Webserver (klopjacht) disk problem

A defective disk made the server stop serving web requests. A reboot fixed the problem. The defective disk will be replaced soon.

1104: Surfnet uplink offline

Due to an error during the planned maintenance by Surfnet of the RU network interface, the uplink of Radboud University to Surfnet was down.

1103: Fileserver goudsmit problems

One of the filesystems contained errors and prevented the system from starting up.

1102: SMTP server offline for half an hour

Both processor fans have failed and need to be replaced.

1101: Fileserver bulk problems

The fileserver had problems, which were resolved after 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

1100: M1.04 no network

While administering the network switchports for the move of ISIS to Mercator1 floor 0 to 3, ISC network management erroneously also changed the configuration of the network switchports of floor 4. When this was reported this morning, it could be readily remedied.

1099: Failure cn56 disk

One of the mirrored disks failed. We didn’t manage to rebuild the raid set with a new disk. The system is reinstalled with two new disks. After that, data from /scratch could be recovered from one of the old disks.