Service Outage: Network Outage October 22, 2005

The following announcement is made by SCS Computing Facilities:

On Saturday October 22nd, a network outage will affect network connectivity between:

• SCS network and the Internet
• SCS network and Research network (Internet2)

TIME OF EVENT: 5:00 a.m. EDT - 6:00 a.m. EDT

AREAS AFFECTED:

All areas of SCS network that depend upon external Internet connectivity (as well as connections and access to off-campus sites and services) will experience interruptions.

Services that will experience interruptions include:

• Commodity Internet
• Abilene/I2/Internet2
• Email (Email is held and then delivered once maintenance is completed.)
• VPN connections from external sites

TECHNICAL DETAILS:

Computing Services is upgrading to a new redundant border router for Internet services. Commodity and Research (I2) Internet connectivity will experience brief outages as they perform fail-over testing to the new router.

CONTACT:

Please contact the SCS Help Desk at x8-4231 or send mail to help+@cs.cmu.edu with any questions or concerns.

Thank you for your attention,

SCS Help Desk