I believe we had some volunteers standing at the routers shouting "it's right over there!", but to no avail.
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Michael Peel <em...@mikepeel.net> wrote: > It's good to see that downtime on Wikipedia is sufficiently rare > nowadays that it's a newsworthy event when it does happen: > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/7514826/Wikipedia- > goes-down.html > > Mike > > On 24 Mar 2010, at 19:44, George Herbert wrote: > >> It's all over the tech blog and wider net - but to repeat it here, >> there was a cooling failure at the datacenter the European servers are >> in, there was a DNS glitch in the recovery procedures for a datacenter >> outage for routing the traffic back to Florida, and the DNS outage has >> resolved itself for nearly everyone by now. >> >> The secure server is still down, but nearly everything else should be >> more or less all up, running out of Florida. >> >> See for example: >> >> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/global-outage-cooling-failure- >> and-dns/#comments >> >> http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log >> >> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM, WereSpielChequers >> <werespielchequ...@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> Anyone know what happened to wikipedia this afternoon? >>> >>> "Firefox can't find the server at en.wikipedia.org" >>> >>> WereSpielChequers >> >> >> >> >> -- >> -george william herbert >> george.herb...@gmail.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WikiEN-l mailing list >> WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > > > _______________________________________________ > WikiEN-l mailing list > WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l > _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l