[WikiEN-l] Firefox can't find the server at en.wikipedia.org.

[Michael Peel]

It's good to see that downtime on Wikipedia is sufficiently rare  
nowadays that it's a newsworthy event when it does happen:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/wikipedia/7514826/Wikipedia- 
goes-down.html

Mike

On 24 Mar 2010, at 19:44, George Herbert wrote:

> It's all over the tech blog and wider net - but to repeat it here,
> there was a cooling failure at the datacenter the European servers are
> in, there was a DNS glitch in the recovery procedures for a datacenter
> outage for routing the traffic back to Florida, and the DNS outage has
> resolved itself for nearly everyone by now.
>
> The secure server is still down, but nearly everything else should be
> more or less all up, running out of Florida.
>
> See for example:
>
> http://techblog.wikimedia.org/2010/03/global-outage-cooling-failure- 
> and-dns/#comments
>
> http://wikitech.wikimedia.org/view/Server_admin_log
>
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:19 AM, WereSpielChequers
> <werespielchequers at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> Anyone know what happened to wikipedia this afternoon?
>>
>> "Firefox can't find the server at en.wikipedia.org"
>>
>> WereSpielChequers
>
>
>
>
> -- 
> -george william herbert
> george.herbert at gmail.com
>
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