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Service Maintenance Completed: Campus Firewall

Submitted by jach7912 on

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End Date & Time

Description

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) will be upgrading the campus border firewall on Thursday, October 8 at 5:30 a.m. to enhance network capacity. This maintenance will disrupt connections from the campus network to the Internet for approximately twenty minutes. 

Impact

Access to the Internet from the campus network and CU Boulder VPN connections to on-campus services will be unavailable for approximately twenty minutes during the maintenance.

USING THE CAMPUS NETWORK (UCB Wireless, UCB Guest, Eduroam)

  • Unable to access resources outside the campus network (Desire2Learn, cnn.com, etc)
  • Unable to access email accounts (Exchange Online, Gmail)
  • Able to access campus resources (www.colorado.edu) while on the campus network

USING A DIFFERENT NETWORK (home, coffee shop, etc.)

  • Unable to connect to CU Boulder Virtual Private Network (VPN) 
  • Unable to access www.colorado.edu sites and other resources housed on the campus network
  • Able to access email accounts (Exchange Online, Gmail)
  • Able to access services not housed on the campus network (Desire2Learn)

Affected Services

Campus Network (UCB Wireless, Guest Wireless and eduroam) and CU Boulder Virtual Private Network (VPN)