Service Outage:  Springfield Internet will be down from 8:00 p.m. until midnight on Saturday, September 15th.  All campuses are affected in some way.

September 17, 2001

This upgrade was performed successfully on schedule in less than 40 minutes.

September 7, 2001

The Springfield Internet will be down starting at about 8:00 p.m. on Saturday, September 15th for up to four hours while MOREnet and Missouri State University upgrade the Springfield Internet router.  This outage is expected to last less than two hours, but we are reserving until midnight to cover unforeseen situations.  This upgrade will enable MOREnet, our Internet Service Provider, to implement quality of service (QoS) features throughout their network which will ultimately improve performance.

Springfield, Mt. Grove, and Lebanon locations will be without Internet services during this upgrade although these sites will be able to communicate with themselves.  The common library system will be unavailable during the outage since it is an Internet application.

West Plains users will perceive network slow-downs since the primary DNS servers located at Springfield will be unavailable, but backup servers will take up the load and West Plains Internet will function.  New machines not previously connected to the network in West Plains or machines that are moved from one network to another in West Plains will not function on the network until the Springfield link comes back up.  This is because Springfield DHCP services will not be available to West Plains during the upgrade.

West Plains dialup will also be down because all account validation occurs through the Springfield campus.  Users will be able to connect to a modem, but they will receive validation errors and the connection will drop until services are restored in Springfield.

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Please direct any questions or concerns to Mark Harsen in Networking.