DNS

Due to the replacement of central switches in the data center at the Seffenter Weg and Wendlingweg locations, there may be brief outages of the services operated in the data center between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m., or 10 p.m. at the latest.

As a result, authentication for Wi-Fi and VPN will also be temporarily unavailable, meaning that logging into Wi-Fi (eduroam, RWTH institutes, RWTH devices) and all VPN areas may be temporarily disrupted.

The maintenance will also affect various IT Center services, which may also experience brief outages. This message has been extended to the affected services.

Die Wartung wurde erfolgreich beendet.

A kernel update requires the server to be rebooted. Thanks to the Anycast used here, the service can be used without interruption as specified at https://help.itc.rwth-aachen.de/service/rhjc72ly4wmw/article/2ba452a647764d9aa91c80a5d18f7772/.

The software for configuring, monitoring, and managing the servers—out-of-band management (IPMI)—needs to be updated. We are proceeding sequentially and will focus on the other DNS servers during this appointment. Unfortunately, this will result in downtime for this server. The service itself will remain available.