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Author: doachs

  • Pat Francek Leaving GAC

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    doachs

    Well, yesterday morning I got the official word that Pat was leaving Gustavus to pursue another position up in the cities. I wish him best of luck and that he will definately be missed here. I worked for him a number of years ago, and it was always fun. I also believe that without him…

  • Secondary Mailserver Changes

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    doachs

    I just wanted to let everyone know that we are putting a new email server into place as a secondary to solen. This new email server has been configured to better combat spam by enforcing mailservers to adhere to the email standards more strictly. It will also pass all the email through an email scanner…

  • Webalizer spam

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    doachs

    This is probably something others have already noticed years ago, but I just came across it this week. For a year or so now we have been keeping statistics on some of our web servers by using the popular Webalizer software. You can usually view a sites stats by adding /usage at the end of…

  • Wireless in Lund

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    doachs

    In preperation for tonights game, we have added a wireless access point to Lund. It is a nice, strong, wireless device that should cover a rather large area pretty well. If anyone uses it, I’d like to hear about your experiences. It is a little bit of an unusual setup for us because it is…

  • Res Hall Traffic

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    doachs

    Something strange happened on our res-hall network again this morning. At about 7:00am this morning there was a ton of broadcast traffic. Something like 50k or 60k of traffic where we normally see about 5k-10k. Another symptom was that all of the switches in the dorms were seeing really high cpu usage. Especially the slower…

  • Spamassassin server died

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    doachs

    One of our two spamassassin servers stopped working Saturday at about 9:00am and was not fixed until 8:00am Sunday morning. During that time about half of all email being sent to spamassassin was not being checked and was just delivered instead. So you probably saw a big rise in spam in the past 24 hours.…

  • Internet Bandwith Increase

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    doachs

    As of about 6:00pm tonight, our internet bandwith has doubled from 10M to 20M. It’s probably maxed out by the time I finish typing this, but oh well. Was good while it lasted 🙂

  • Solen rebooted

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    doachs

    In case you noticed everything screetching to a halt tonight around 7pm, solen had a kernel panic and had to be rebooted. About 20 minutes later, it was back up and running again.

  • Norelius and Complex at a gig too

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    doachs

    Norelius and Complex (North, Gibbs, and Sorensen) also just had their collective network connection to Olin increased from 100Mbit to 1000Gbit. File transfers and possibly on campus gaming should improve as a result. Unfortunately that does not mean the internet will be any faster. Though we did finally sign a contract that should double our…

  • International Building now at a gig

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    doachs

    The network connection for the International center bas been bumped up from 100Mbit/s to 1000Mbit/s as of about 11:30am this morning. Hope that makes some things a little bit faster.