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Scheduled Maintenance: Name Service Changes for Authentication Servers

Posted by postprob on June 27, 2008 at 05:40 AM

Problem:   Name Service Changes for Authentication Servers
Cause:     Retiring older hardware
Affects:   Nobody - redundant servers with autmatic failover
Started:   06/27/2008 05:15 AM
Resolved:  06/27/2008 05:30 AM

Notes:

We have completed some name service changes that rearrange how the aliases for our authentication (Kerberos) servers. The aliases for:
   kerberos
   kerberos2

Have now been rearranged to to point to faster machines running on newer hardware. The master server (kerberos) is now running on new hardware in KSL computer room.

The previous master has been upgraded to a 64-bit operating system and is now running as kerberos2 whose previous old hardware is being retired.

These changes should have been totally transparent to the user community, but please let us know of any problems in using kerberos or kerberos2.


Created: 06/27/2008 05:40:30 by dak

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