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  • IPAM Upgrade: March 24, 2016

    Mar 16, 2016 7:30 pm194  Views

    On Thu Mar 24 between 5:00-7:00am, the production IP Address Management appliance grid will be upgraded to a new software release from the vendor (7.2.7).

    Important Reminder for Perl API (PAPI) Users

    After the upgrade, you will need to update your installation of the Infoblox PAPI perl modules on any client systems from which you run PAPI scripts.  Do not apply this change to a production environment ahead of time, as the modules are not backward-compatible.

  • Best Practice for Stand-alone CNAME Records

    Feb 23, 2016 1:15 pm106  Views

    We have recently updated the IPAM service documentation to reflect a new best practice recommendation for deciding between Host Aliases and stand-alone CNAME records.

  • Dev IPAM Grid

    Jun 16, 2015 11:00 am48  Views

    The development IPAM grid, formerly located at ipam-dev.illinois.edu, will be down for the next several days to facilitate a hardware transition.  When it returns, it will have a new hostname: https://dev.ipam.illinois.edu

  • Automatic renewal of non-.edu domains

    Nov 11, 2014 4:30 pm88  Views

    Effective immediately, non-.edu DNS domains registered through CITES will be automatically renewed by the registrar 60-90 days before they are scheduled to expire.  The Primary and Administrative domain contacts will receive a notification email prior to each auto-renewal, but will not need to respond affirmatively in order for the auto-renewal to proceed.

    If you do NOT wish to renew a domain, you must notify hostmgr NO LESS THAN 91 DAYS PRIOR TO ITS EXPIRATION DATE (or sooner if that deadline would fall on a non-business day) to ensure that the change can be processed before the next auto-renewal occurs.

    Transitional note: for non-.edu domains currently scheduled to expire before Mar 2, 2015, you must notify hostmgr no later than Dec 1, 2014 if you do not wish to renew these domains.  Individual reminder notices for these domains will be sent out within the next week.

  • IPAM Upgrade: July 24, 2014

    Jul 16, 2014 3:30 pm104  Views

    On Thu Jul 24, 2014 between 10:00pm-12:00 midnight, the production Infoblox grid for the campus IPAM (DNS and DHCP) service will be upgraded from its current software version (6.5.0) to the latest release from the vendor (6.10.6).

    Important Reminder for API Users

    After the upgrade date, you will need to update your installation of the Infoblox API perl modules on any client systems that you use to run Infoblox API scripts against the production grid. Note that this upgrade cannot be applied to your production environments ahead of time; see the service documentation (http://www.cites.illinois.edu/ipam/api.html) for further explanation.

  • Authoritative DNS Improvements: update

    Jul 1, 2014 12:15 pm38  Views

    As of today, the transition announced in the previous post (Authoritative DNS Improvements) is complete: dns3.illinois.edu has replaced dns1.iu.edu as our off-site authoritative nameserver (in case of an Urbana campus outage), and our authoritative zones have been removed from dns1.iu.edu.

  • Authoritative DNS Improvements

    Mar 19, 2014 9:45 am140  Views

    CITES Networking is pleased to announce two upcoming changes to our authoritative DNS infrastructure: dns3.illinois.edu will replace dns1.iu.edu as our off-site authoritative nameserver (in case of an Urbana campus outage), and IPv6 addresses will be added to our authoritative nameservers dns1.illinois.edu and dns2.illinois.edu.

    For most customers, no action is required. However, action will be required for IT Pros who maintain slaved delegation zones.

  • Known Issue with CSV Import

    Jul 8, 2013 4:00 pm72  Views

    When using the CSV Import mechanism to add or modify Host records, your DNS changes may not propagate from IPAM to the main nameservers dns1.illinois.edu and dns2.illinois.edu. A workaround is available; please see Known Issues for details. This bug has been reported to the vendor.

  • Campus IPAM Upgrade: August 21, 2012

    Aug 14, 2012 2:15 pm335  Views

    On Tue Aug 21, 2012 between 5:00-7:00am, the production Infoblox grid for the campus IPAM (DNS and DHCP) service will be upgraded from its current software version (6.4.2) to the latest release from the vendor (6.5.0).

  • DNS Migration Update: What's New

    Jun 25, 2012 11:00 am381  Views

    CITES Networking is pleased to announce that the DNS migration is now complete and campus DNS is now running on our new IPAM ("IP Address Management") platform.