Message: 2 Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2003 23:46:53 +1000 From: "Tim Starling" ts4294967296@hotmail.com Subject: [Wikitech-l] Re: Wikitech-l Wikipedia stuck To: wikitech-l@wikipedia.org Message-ID: bkhlmr$atp$1@sea.gmane.org

Unfortunately there was nothing I could do about that. We could display an error message on en: because the requests for en: web pages go to larousse, and larousse was working fine. The database was on pliny, and that server was not responding.

Requests for web pages on the other-language wikis go straight to pliny, not via another webserver. If I had root access (and assuming I also had some vague understanding of linux networking), I might have been able to pull an IP aliasing trick like Brion did last time larousse went down. That involves making larousse pretend to be pliny. I imagine Brion would have attempted that if he had more time.

Soon, the other-language webserving will also be moved to larousse, which is fine as long as larousse doesn't crash.

-- Tim Starling <t=starling=physics=unimelb=edu=au>

Okay. Thanks very much for the explanation Tim.

Anthere

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