This seems to be a power outage at our European proxy caching cluster; Mark may be able to provide some more details.
European traffic has been rerouted to our US servers, but the extra load may cause the sites to be a little sluggish for now.
(If your DNS is still seeing the old entries, you can manually configure your browser to use the US proxy: rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org port 80. You should only do this temporarily, as you won’t be able to access anything *but* Wikipedia and our sister projects. :)
Also posted on tech blog: http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2009/07/power-outage-in-wikimedias-european-se...
-- brion
Brion Vibber wrote:
(If your DNS is still seeing the old entries, you can manually configure your browser to use the US proxy: rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org port 80. You should only do this temporarily, as you won’t be able to access anything *but* Wikipedia and our sister projects. :)
Since accessing Wikipedia only isn't too nice, for future outages a pac file can be used:
function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
//Not using shExpMatch to avoid kb274204 var regex = /.wik(i((m|p)edia|books|quote|news|source|versity)|tionary).org/; if(regexpr.test(host)) return "PROXY rr.pmtpa.wikimedia.org:80";
return "DIRECT"; }
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