Network Issue Impacted Internet Access and Online Services on Monday, March 23

IT Services responded to an unexpected issue on the campus network's core firewall starting around 10:30 a.m. on Monday, March 23, which caused intermittent disruptions to campus Internet and online services.

Campus Internet and access to online services returned to normal around 12:50 p.m. following emergency maintenance performed by the Network Engineering Team to reverse a software upgrade that was installed during planned maintenance on Sunday, March 22.

Updates were posted to IT Services and Network Engineering Team Facebook and Twitter accounts during the event.

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