As a result of a high amount of email traffic related to this weekend’s Alumni events, the student email server has been experiencing difficulties in sending student email from Webmail, Outlook, and SquirrelMail to off campus addresses. Members of the technical staff are currently hard at work remedying the situation. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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The email administrator reports that the webmail server is under a denial of service attack. He has rebooted the server, but that may not stop the attack from impairing your ability to login. In the event that you cannot connect to Webmail, try using SquirrelMail (http://chip.pomona.edu/sm/student/src/login.php) instead.
Island, the ITS-owned server that hosts the web pages for several student organizations including ASPC and TSL, suffered a hard drive failure this evening after regular business hours had ended. Technical Services staff drove back to campus to confirm the problem and have already replaced the drive, and will perform data recovery tomorrow morning. This […]
We finally got word from the full time staff regarding the network outage in Norton-Clark. The entire stack went out due to a hardware failure. Replacements will arrive and be installed in the morning. Expect service to return by early afternoon. If your internet connection does not return after that time, please call the helpdesk […]
Within the past few days Microsoft has released multiple security patches including 3 that they have designated critical. Please make sure you have visited http://WindowsUpdate.microsoft.com recently and installed everything listed as critical. If you do not do this it is very likely that your computer will be infected with a virus or other malicious software. […]
ITS Full-time and student employees observed Internet connection problems on lab computers in SACS and Gibson during the 9 o’clock hour. The problems may be related to instability in the campus DHCP server. Intermapper reports that the DHCP server has been down several times during the last two hours. Technical Services staff are currently working […]
Recently ITS has noticed an increased number of problems that have been caused by student machines that are infected with a virus. In general there are two easy things that every computer owner needs to do to ensure that their computer does not fall victim to a virus or other malicious software.
The first and most […]
An urgently needed memory upgrade to the 5-C internet router will be done Saturday morning between 7 and 8 AM. Inter-Campus connectivity will not be affected. Total downtime should not exceed 10 minutes.
