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| Date | Description |
|---|---|
| 03/21/2003 | Network services were unavailable from ~ 9:45 PM to 10:20 PM due to a network flood. Machines were traced down and corrective measures were taken. |
| 03/22/2003 | Critical security maintenance on Truman's web database server was performed today from 12:10-1:10pm. During this timeframe some web applications and database-driven websites (such as ITS) were temporarily unavailable. Service to all database-driven applications and sites has been restored. |
| 03/12/2003 | Access to campus email will be disrupted this afternoon for approximately 15-20 minutes beginning at 4:00PM. This disruption will be due to a critical upgrade for the email system. All services should be restored by 4:30PM. You will not be able to check your email during this time period. |
| 03/03/2003 | Internet access was down and local network services were severely disrupted this morning by a denial of service attack. The problem machine was traced down and disconnected. Network services were restored. |
| 02/25/2003 | Internet access was down and local network services were severely disrupted by a denial of service attack. Services have now been restored and investigations are continuing. |
| 03/07/2003 | The problem appears to have been resolved. On Wednesday afternoon, March 5, MOREnet changed the QoS (quality of service) for our Internet connection. Since then our Internet access has been back to normal. _________________________________ We are experiencing an intermittent problem with slow Internet access. We are working with MOREnet on finding and fixing the problem. Analysis has not revealed any problem on our local network. The Internet performance problem began Tuesday morning (2-19), vanished Friday morning (2-21) before 8 AM but returned on Monday morning (2-24). This problem also seems to affect Library access to Lance. A new network monitor point was installed Tuesday morning (2-25) to provide better trace information. Several sniffer traces were sent to MOREnet for analysis. The traces show a Internet performance problem. A computer has been set up in a DMZ completely past all Truman network equipment, it connects directly to the MOREnet router. This computer is experiencing similar problems with Internet performance. |
| 02/11/2003 | The following announcement was sent to all Faculty and Staff regarding email changes: Email Announcement |
| 01/30/2003 | Some people experienced a loss of network connectivity in Ophelia Parrish due to a problem with network electronics located in an Ophelia Parrish wiring closet. The problem has been corrected. |
| 01/27/2003 | Campus Pipeline services have been restored. The outage was caused by problems with the iPlanet web server that runs Campus Pipeline. _________________________________ Campus Pipeline is currently unavailable. Campus Pipeline, Inc. is looking at the problem. |
| 01/29/2003 | Between 1:00PM and 9:00PM on Sunday, January 26, the Truman network experienced several intermittent outages - the cause of which is still being determined. |
| 01/28/2003 | The network outage from midnight Friday night until around 9:00am on Saturday morning (1/25/2003) was due to the new SQL worm that is infecting systems across the Internet. Most universities connected to MOREnet were affected by this outage. Even though all the critical servers on campus were patched for this type of worm - there were 2 PC's that were hit. These 2 systems caused local network access to be extremely slow. These machines have been disconnected from the network. All local services were restored by 9:10am.
The follow was received from MOREnet regarding the outages: A new worm known as the SQL Slammer Worm was discovered on January 24, 2003. This worm targets servers running Microsoft SQL and causes a denial of service and loss of network availability. In order to restore network availability, MOREnet has temporarily stopped routing all port 1434 udp traffic across the backbone. While this may cause some interruption of SQL use, many MOREnet networks were simply unavailable on the morning of Saturday, January 25, 2003 due to traffic from this worm. Normal routing will be restored as soon as the threat has abated.
Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP running SQL
Any Internet device or user attacked or abused from a compromised machine. Significant reports of loss of network availability (both inside and outside MOREnet) have come to MOREnet’s attention.
W32.SQLExp.Worm, SQL Slammer Worm, DDOS.SQLP1434.A, W32/SQLSlammer |
| 01/23/2003 | MOREnet has notified us that the AT&T Internet service in the Kansas City area that was down earlier today, Jan. 23, 2003, has now been restored. |
| 01/23/2003 | The following was copied in whole from a MORENet service note:
AT&T Internet service in the Kansas City area is down. MORENet Customers may experience delays as traffic is redirected to other Internet providers. MOREnet technicians are currently working with the provider to resolve this problem as quickly as possible. |
| 01/25/2003 | There was a problem in the way that student aliases are updated nightly. Most mail going to the Campus Pipeline system duing this time frame was undeliverable. Only mail that had fully qualified addresses were delivered.
This problem has been resolved and measures have been taken to ensure that student aliases are updated correctly in the future. |
| 01/26/2003 | The transfer to the new server is complete. From this point on, you will need to access www2 as stated in the email you received earlier in the week. If you have any questions or problems, please contact the ITS Help Desk at 4544 or helpdesk@truman.edu |
| 01/06/2003 | The Campus Pipeline platform was down for 15 minutes today beginning at 1:45PM. There was a problem with the customizations made to pipeline that required the platform to be restarted. |
| 12/15/2002 | Internal and External network access was disrupted from around 2:30pm until 4:00pm today (12/12/2002) due to 2 systems connected to the Truman network that were interfering with normal network activity. These systems have been disconnected from the network while the cause is being investigated. |
| 12/13/2002 | Email access through Campus Pipeline was unavailable from sometime around 1:30 a.m. until approximately 8:15 a.m. A reboot of the email server fixed the problem. |
| 12/13/2002 | The Truman Firewall was re-activated this morning at ~ 5:15 AM with our previously developed rule set. |
| 12/10/2002 | Internet services were unavailable from 5-6 AM this morning due to network maintenance. |
| 12/09/2002 | Internet services will be unavailable tomorrow mornining, Tuesday December 10th, from 5-7 AM due to network maintenance. The Internet downtime will be kept as short as possible. |
| 12/06/2002 | Internet access was unavailable this morning from ~ 5 - 6 AM. This was due to work on the Truman Firewall. The previous re-activation of the Truman Firewall on November 20th was not successful. We are continuing to work on the new Firewall system to ensure it will function correctly with our previously developed rule set. |
| 12/05/2002 | The primary web server, Argon, was off-line from approximatly 7:30am to 8:30am, Monday 12.2.02 A problem with network connectivity was resolved and services have been restored. |
| 11/26/2002 | Internet services were temporarily unavailable from 5 AM until 5:30 AM this morning. Service was restored at 5:30 AM. |
| 11/28/2002 | Campus Pipeline was unavaible for a short period at about 5:15 on 11/25. The server was rebooted do to an error that caused a loss of content. All services have been restored. |