Category: FrontPage
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Monday Night Networking Troubles
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Last night the Helpline caught me on IM and let me know that the res-hall network was not exactly running smoothly. According to the reports, users plugged in in many dorms as well as via wireless were having trouble raching email, the internet, or the Gustavus home page. However the lab computers in the dorms…
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Gustavus Network Speeds
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I have had a couple of people ask me today, “How fast is our internet connection?” The quick answer to that is 30Mbit I1 and 45Mbit I2. What that means is that we have a 30Mbit connection to the “internet”. We also have an additional 45Mbit connection to Internet2. Internet2 is a research network mainly…
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Spamassassin Changes
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Due to performance issues, I had to clean out everyone’s spamassassin learning (bayes) database and migrate it to a new server. As a result all spamassassin training has been reset and you may notice more spam making it into your mailbox. If you would like help re-training, I have made a quick and dirty page…
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Unexpected Downtime
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At about 2:45pm Thursday August 31, our primary mailserver failed causing all access to Gustavus email to stop. Email service was restored at about 3:05pm. As a result, some of you using non webmail based email clients may notice some messages are now marked as unread that were read just before the server failed. To…