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News & Notes: Firewall issue prompts partial online services outage

A number of University websites, including Blackboard, were down Tuesday afternoon due to a firewall issue.

The services were restored in the evening, although the specific problem remains to be identified, University Spokesperson Martin Mbugua said.

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Blackboard, campus printing and PeopleSoft, the parent service that hosts SCORE and other administrative services, became unavailable during the outage, Mbugua said.

The University’s Undergraduate Office of Admission, Office of Information Technology, TigerApps and Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Students websites were all reported down.

The Princeton homepage was available throughout the outage.

The OIT website reported an Internet connectivity outage between 2:50 and 3:04 p.m. Tuesday. As of press time, OIT had not tweeted or reported the evening outage.

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