I'm getting the feeling that I misunderstood what everyone meant when this thread started. I thought we were talking about times when we have lost all contact with the server, but it seems that most everyone is talking about when the server is not responding due to some sort of maintenance (do we even do that?).
All I ever meant to say is that if we can't control the server at all (that is, we can't login, and it doesn't serve any webpages), it is unlikely that we will be able to perform any sort of redirect without bringing in some new equipment to preempt the connection. Also, in this type of situation, it only takes me a moment to restart the server once I am made aware of the situation, so it would be easier and faster if somebody called me and told me instead of trying to redirect all traffic from the server...
Jason
buraq wrote:
Jason Richey wrote:
We would have to initiate this from the machine that is not responding, or we would have to have a router under our control connected upstream.
It does not have to be that complicated. In principle, and if we assume that client browsers support the META redirect tag (after, say 120 seconds), than a wikipedia mirror could welcome everybody who thirsts for knowledge, no ?
cheers, buraq
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