OUCS Networks Team

By now people are probably getting bored of hearing about the webcache so you’ll be glad to know that this should be the last post on the subject, the webcache having been successfully enabled for IPv6 this morning. Note that … Continue reading →

Mathematical Institute The initial switched /64 connection to the Mathematical Institute was switched to a routed firewall connection this week and as a result I’ve routed the entire /56 that was set aside to them. I think we’ll have to … Continue reading →

All New Authoritative and Resolver DNS servers The last DNS resolver and all of the DNS authoritative servers have now been migrated to new hardware, the resolver having being migrated approx 6:10am this morning. There’s other work I’d like to … Continue reading →

I thought I’d cover our IPv6/server replacement progress this week but also describe some IPv6 issues we bumped into in case it assists other IT Officers in the University. DNS Resolvers Firstly we’re replaced the second of the three DNS … Continue reading →

Completed The main progress on the IPv6 and server deployments this week: This morning we’ve deployed a new DNS resolver to replace our oldest in service host. It was due to be done last week but I spent a little … Continue reading →

Our targets for the IPv6 deployment for this week have been mostly successful Enabling IPv6 to first half and now the second half of the OUCS server room has been completed, we’ve had no complaints of disruption from other teams … Continue reading →

We’ve a timeline of work for the IPv6 deployment for the next month which might be of interest to some and at the same time we’ve work updating the hardware and operating systems for certain core services. There’s other services … Continue reading →

We’ve made some progress, we’ve reached agreement with the security team that we can enable IPv6 on the OUCS machine room hardware starting 7th September, which means we will be able to start making our core network services IPv6 capable. … Continue reading →

At the ICT conference I gave a talk alongside Bob Franklin from Cambridge. Bob covered IPv6 in general and then I covered a deployment case study using our teams deployment plans but trying to make it as general as possible … Continue reading →