CS Network Status

This page lists both active and recently closed CS network alerts. If you would like more information about an alert, or if you have an issue you would like to report, send email to helpdesk [-at-] cs [dot] umd [dot] edu or call extension 52720.

Current Active Alerts

There are no current active alerts. Network operations are normal.

Have an issue that you need to report? Send email to helpdesk [-at-] cs [dot] umd [dot] edu.

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Past Alerts

Updated Issue Summary Impact
06.13.2016 22:28 Thur 6/9 7:00pm - 10:00pm: CS network, procmail, junkfood maintenance

On Thursday 6/9/16 from 7:00pm - 10:00pm EST users may experience network outages due to maintenance. During the first fifteen minutes of maintenance, mail delivery via procmail and access to users' home directories on junkfood will be unavailable. Stale mounts on supported machines for users' junkfood home directories will be corrected following the outage.

 		Moderate
06.13.2016 22:28 System maintenance Sat. 5/28 & Sun. 5/29

On Sat. 5/28 at ~11:00pm and again on Sun. 5/29 at 11:00pm we will perform system maintenance. Around these times users of "junkfood" home space & email for faculty and grad students who use the dept's older email service, procmail, may notice a disruption lasting up to 5 minutes for these services. Additional time after each outage is needed to correct stale mounts on supported machines that mount users' home directories on "junkfood".

 		Light
06.13.2016 22:28 Core network work done, individual systems may still experience short outages. Moderate
06.09.2016 20:03 6/9 campus wifi/phone issues

There is a core routing problem within the Division of IT that is causing wifi and phone issues. They are working on resolving it now. The internal CS network seems to be unaffected.

 		Heavy
05.23.2016 09:36 Sun. 5/22: CS Network Maintenance

On Sunday (May 22) between the hours of 1:00pm - 6:00pm we will perform
maintenance on all of our managed switches located throughout AVW.

There will be a complete network outage lasting up to 5 minutes at
approximately 1:30pm.

Between 1:30pm and 6:00pm you may notice another outage of up to 5
minutes if you are connecting through one of the floor switches in AVW
or a lab swiitch.

 		Light
05.20.2016 14:28 The old VPN server has been officially shut down.

If you can not access the VPN please read the CS FAQ page on the subject and if you're still having trouble contact Staffworld.

 		Light
05.20.2016 14:27 Campus Exchange bouncing some @cs.umd.edu contacts

Some CS users are hearing from colleagues who use the campus Exchange server that email sent to @cs is bouncing. The sender receives a message that will indicate "DELIVERY HAS FAILED TO THESE RECIPIENTS OR GROUPS: 'userName-contact.' Deleting the contact from the address book and re-adding it fixed the problem. This is a DivIT problem and senders should report via email to itsc@umd.edu. The source of the problem is a corrupt nickname cache on the campus Exhcange server.

 		Light
05.20.2016 14:27 Network sluggishness

We are experiencing slow connection speeds on the CS Network. While we are investigating the cause of this issue, users may experience long wait times while connecting to the internet or other machines within the department.

 		Moderate
05.10.2016 11:43 CS Login problems - mail, junkfood

CS systems that require CS LDAP for authentication are currently unable to connect. This impacts access to mail and ssh onto supported CS systems. We are working to resolve the problem.

 		Moderate
05.10.2016 11:43 CS Personal Webpages Inaccessible

Personal webspaces hosted on junkfood are currently unable to be accessed online. Class webpages not hosted within users' personal web directories are unaffected. We are actively working to restore access to these webpages.

 		Moderate