Category: GAC IT

Yesterday we upgraded the network connection between SSC and the rest of campus from a 100Mbit connection to a 1Gbit connection. Hopefully anyone with a computer in SSC will notice a nice increase in network performance.

As a few students noticed last night we hade a couple small interuptions in our service. I contacted our ISP about it and they were not aware of any problems. Later on they got back to me and let me know that another part of the ISP actually did do some work on their “fiber…

This past weekend Gustavus Adolphus College was added to the list of schools on http://thefacebook.com. Since then I have noticed some interesting facts. A site like Thefacebook is very disruptive. As far as I can tell, it is the hottest website on campus right now. People in the computer labs, student workers computers, and just…

As some people on campus noticed, we had an issue with our internet connection last night. It appears as thought our internet service provider, Hickory Tech, had some issues. At about 1:15am, 1:20am, 2:30am, 2:36am, and 2:48am, it looks like out internet connection was down for a minute or two. As Wednesday night is Hickory…

Late in the day yesterday (~4:00pm) the disks attached to our email server had a hiccup which caused a mirror system to fail. Thus the server needed to repair the mirror. Over the next several hours email was extremely slow. Users with small mailboxes (a few megs or less) were able to use email. Everyone…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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 🙂