CTS Announcements & System Status

I have been informed by our ISP that there are currently nationwide Internet routing problems, that have contributed to our recent spate of Internet outages. More are likely to follow.

The campus mailing list server will be unavailable between 10pm and midnight on Wednesday the 19th due to upgrades.

W@SP, the wireless network, suffered a prolonged outage from around 9:00pm last night until a few minutes ago.

The mail server is again operational. All mail queued for delivery during the outage is being delivered. Users are encouraged to restart their e-mail program if they left it on.

We are experiencing problems with e-mail, and it is currently unavailable. We will update as we know more.

Beginning at 5:00pm, networking (wired and wireless) in Stowell Hall will be unavailable twice, for up to 2 minute each time, as necessary upgrades are performed on network components.

At 3:00pm, a transformer will be added to the Stillman Datacenter UPS, to increase our power capacity. This is probably not noteworthy, but in the event of a complete server farm shutdown, thought you’d like to know. Optimus Prime will be on standby.

Penguin, a server housing numerous services including Track.potsdam.edu, will be rebooted between 4:30pm and 5:00pm for maintenance.

The mail server is back online.

The mail server is recovering from disk problems. We expect to have it operational in approximately 30 minutes.