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Break in several Linux services 2008-02-12 23:00-24:00

Description: 

Schedule:

2008-02-12 23:00 - 24:00

Duration:

1 h

Affected services:

DNS, www, DHCP, public workstations.

Reason:

Kernel upgrade that fixes recent local-root vulnerability.

Break in individual service will be shorter than an hour, usually approximately 5 to 10 minutes.

Break in network connections at 2008-02-04 10:00-12:10

Description: 

Schedule:

2008-02-04 10:00 - 12:10

Duration:

2:10 h

Affected services:

HIIT's internal network.

Reason:

In HIIT internal network there was a rogue DHCP server which was giving wrong IP addresses to clients.

Break in shell and universe at 2008-01-25 09:00-09:30

Description: 

Schedule:

2008-01-25 9:00 - 9:30

Duration:

0:30 h

Affected services:

HIIT's general purpose server shell.hiit.fi and universe.hiit.fi.

Reason:

Kernel upgrade that fixes few security problems. All pending upgrades will be installed as well.

Update:

09:30: Break was over at 09:16. Both servers were down for approx. 4 minutes each.

Break in HIIT-AS at 2008-01-23 07:15-07:45

Description: 

Schedule:

2008-01-23 7:15 - 7:45

Duration:

0:30 h

Affected services:

HIIT's authentication service.

Reason:

HIIT's authentication service will be moved to new server hardware.

Update:

Login to HIIT's webpages started to work at 09:50 when we updated the webserver to use the new authentication servers.

Break in terae at 2008-01-21 9:20-10:18

Description: 

Schedule:

2008-01-21 9:20 - 10:18

Duration:

0:58 h

Affected services:

CoSCo's demo server terae.hiit.fi.

Reason:

One LUN will be added to terae's volume group vg1.

Update(s):

9:58: fcsk to /data filesystem takes a while.
10:18: terae is up and running.

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