Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Due to the current gap in continued funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), the NSF Unidata Program Center has temporarily paused most operations. See NSF Unidata Pause in Most Operations for details.
Everyone, Your network admins are probably aware of a major DNS server attack between 3Z last night and 15Z this morning. 89 universities were reportedly targeted for the automated rolling attacks, which caused major to full interruptions of DNS service and resulting major network outages at these institutions. The DoS is due to a flaw in BIND 9, but a patch has been vetted and is now available as of this afternoon to fix the flaw. NIU was not attacked, but we don't want to crash and burn. Intelligence indicates this might not be the last of the attacks, and it MIGHT be a "dry" run for something bigger. Tonight at 3Z, NIU will be applying that patch to one of our two DNS servers; unfortunately, the second server requires a vendor-made patch and may not be available for another day or so. However, should the secondary server go down, we would see only a modest slowdown in DNS service to our commodity Internet and National Light Rail connections. In any case, this will knock us offline for about 30 minutes, and hopefully less, starting at 9 PM CST (3Z) tonight. Both DNS servers will have to go offline, unfortunately. If, however, you receive our feed via IP address, you should be OK. Thanks for your patience, Gilbert ******************************************************************************* Gilbert Sebenste ******** (My opinions only!) ****** Staff Meteorologist, Northern Illinois University **** E-mail: sebenste@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx *** web: http://weather.admin.niu.edu ** Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/NIU_Weather ** Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/niu.weather * *******************************************************************************
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