October 2007 Archives

The Math and Stats web server stopped serving PHP pages at about 10:30 this morning; it was OK again at 11:05.

For the record: the HH-303 printer is working again as of mid Monday afternoon.

The HPLJ 4345 outside of HH-303 is down; we are expecting a service technician later on today. Please use the printers in HH-403 and HH-214 for now.

The problems with DNS names which began Wednesday evening are continuing due to a problem at the CIRA end. So there may be some problems with connections to mathserv or email bouncing today.
I'm told that the fix should have worked its way through the Internet name servers later on today.

There were DNS problems on Wednesday evening and Thursday morning which caused problems with web, mail and ssh connections:

Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:24:30 -0400
From: Colin Wu
Subject: Name resolutioni from off-campus

While attempting to configure an external secondary name server for the mcmaster.ca domain a misconfiguration resulted in some off-campus sites not being able to resolve names correctly. I have corrected the problem but due to caching it may take up to an hour for the correct information to propagate.