Jason Richey wrote: 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

And what about temporal moving to a rent server for some ours ( short-time rent room). Made the changes, the wikipedia could return to the original server. This is interesting to see with http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/interwiki servers interconnected. Regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philipp W." <philipp(a)diewebdesigner.com> To: <wikitech-l(a)wikipedia.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:51 AM Subject: Re: [Wikitech-l] Re: redirect when Wikipedia is down

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 C. Richey" <jasonr(a)bomis.com>