Now when Wikipedia goes down all visitors of Wikipedia get a error.
Wikipedians, the come back when the system is back up but new visitors mayby not.And it gives a bad impression.
I would be very nice that when wikipedia.org goes down all traffic goes to a page that says that Wikipedia is down and will be back up as soon as possibel.
Giskart
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:40:22AM +0000, Giskart wrote:
Now when Wikipedia goes down all visitors of Wikipedia get a error.
Wikipedians, the come back when the system is back up but new visitors mayby not.And it gives a bad impression.
I would be very nice that when wikipedia.org goes down all traffic goes to a page that says that Wikipedia is down and will be back up as soon as possibel.
Even better would be to redirect to read only mirror, updated nightly.
Anybody have an idea of how to implement such a "redirect", assuming that when we need the redirect most, we're in a situation where the machine that answers to the ip that the name wikipedia.org resolves to is totally incapable of doing anything, and we don't control the routers that the request would pass through.
It's a difficult thing to do without adding some hardware, and that money would need to come from somewhere...
Jason
Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote:
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:40:22AM +0000, Giskart wrote:
Now when Wikipedia goes down all visitors of Wikipedia get a error.
Wikipedians, the come back when the system is back up but new visitors mayby not.And it gives a bad impression.
I would be very nice that when wikipedia.org goes down all traffic goes to a page that says that Wikipedia is down and will be back up as soon as possibel.
Even better would be to redirect to read only mirror, updated nightly. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
On mar, 2003-02-04 at 19:12, Jason Richey wrote:
Anybody have an idea of how to implement such a "redirect", assuming that when we need the redirect most, we're in a situation where the machine that answers to the ip that the name wikipedia.org resolves to is totally incapable of doing anything, and we don't control the routers that the request would pass through.
Hmm, one could put a short TTL on the DNS entry, and swap it to point to another machine in case of problems.
However that could be problematic in terms of hugely increasing traffic for the DNS server.
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
Good idea !!
----- Original Message ----- From: "Tomasz Wegrzanowski" taw@users.sourceforge.net To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 3:27 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] redirect when Wikipedia is down
On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:40:22AM +0000, Giskart wrote:
Now when Wikipedia goes down all visitors of Wikipedia get a error.
Wikipedians, the come back when the system is back up but new visitors mayby not.And it gives a bad impression.
I would be very nice that when wikipedia.org goes down all traffic goes to a page that says that Wikipedia is down and will be back up as soon as possibel.
Even better would be to redirect to read only mirror, updated nightly. _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list Wikitech-l@wikipedia.org http://www.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
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