AG DSN

To speed up the registration of all the new people arriving for the new semester, our offices at

• Wundtstraße 5
• Hochschulstraße 46

will be open all day on Monday (2018-10-01).

Our office at Borsbergstraße 34 will be open from 6 pm on.

But not only new members are welcome, we are always looking for new volunteers. If you would like to see and learn how a network for over 3000 users is run, have a look! There will be tours through our tech rooms and fresh waffles.

During the next two days (2018-09-11 and 2018-09-12) a Studentenwerk contractor will repair some faulty fiber connections at Gret-Palucca-Straße. We do not have backup links available for all sites connecting through the affected fibres, which will cause some outages at the sites mentioned above.

Due to the short notice we don't have any more detail for now, we will give updates as soon as we know more.

Update (2018-09-11):
Around 9:10am GPS11 and Neuberinstraße went offline, ca. 10:20am the connections were reestablished. Besides some short interruptions to verify the fiber link quality there should be no further problems, by this evening the work should be finished.

This weekend we celebrate the summer and semester break at Borsbergstraße 34 (7th floor). All members of AG DSN are welcome! There will be refreshments in various forms and tastes as well as a barbecue. We start at 7 pm on Saturday and are looking forward to seeing you.

During the next weeks – among other works – the university data centre needs to move some patch panels at Trefftz-Bau.

A result is a total network outage at Zeunerstraße. It will last for several hours.

This outage will most likely happen on 2018-09-10 or 2018-09-11. We will inform you as soon as more details are known to us.

Update (2018-09-01):
Due to a delivery problem the works are delayed, and thus the network outage is delayed, too.

Update (2018-09-06):
It has been confirmed that the outage will occur on Monday, 2018-09-10, from 8 to 11am.

Update (2018-09-10):
As of 10:30am the dormitory uplink has been reestablished and everything is back in working order.

Over the weekend, from Saturday 10 am, the listed student houses will switch over to a new administration software.

Due to these changes support requests will get delayed over the following week, there might be short network interruptions as well.

With the deployment of this new software years of development work come to fruition. In the future we hope to offer you faster support response times, more flexible membership management, and additional self-service features.

As part of the consolidation and improvement of our internal systems the email service and the user hosting infrastructure for members at Hochschulstraße will be migrated to the new infrastructure till 2018-08-29.

In the meantime the old and the new system will be available in parallel. After the deadline the old system will be shut down!

More information on what is going to change for you personally, e.g. what your new login is and what settings need to be adjusted in your email client, will be send to you by email. You can also find it on our website.

This weekend the device authentication for members in Gerokstraße will be replaced by the centralized system.

If everything goes according to plan, there will be no outages.

From 2018-07-28 until further notice, the office hours will change as follows:
The office at Hochschulstraße will be open at the usual time on Mondays only.
The offices at Wundtstraße and Borsbergstraße will be open at the usual times on Thursdays only.

You can still contact us via e-mail anytime. The offices might be open at other times, too, but there is no guarantee.

AG DSN wishes its members and all students a relaxing semester break.

Update (2018-08-28):
From 2018-09-01 the offices at Hochschulstraße and Wundtstraße will be open each Monday and Thursday again.
From 2018-10-01 the office at Borsbergstraße will be open each Monday and Thursday again.

Update (2018-08-30):
Our office at Wundtstraße will be opened on the 2018-09-01 (Saturday) from CA. 9 AM to 4 PM.

On Saturday, Juli 28th, we will change parts of the fiber cabling at Zellescher Weg. This could result in brief outages.

Currently we have detected an outage of our switch in the 5th floor of Borsbergstraße 34. This is causing network problems in this building. We are already working on this issue and are close to fixing it.

Update: The switch was replaced, so the network problems should be resolved.

Due to the new European General Data Protection Regulation we had to split up and revise our forms. Up to this point the new versions of the membership application, services form and moving notification were only available in German.

Now the services form and moving notification are available in English, too, so you do not have to use the German version anymore.

Since the membership application form is basically the written contract between our members and the AG DSN, we want its translation to be legally verified before deploying it. Thus, you can not use it to apply for membership at the moment. However, to make filling in the German version easier for you, we added the current English translation as a reference to our help sheet (on page 2): universally – for Gerokstraße – for Hochschulstraße

If you should find any mistranslations, please let us know!