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

[Martijn Hoekstra]

I believe we had some volunteers standing at the routers shouting
"it's right over there!", but to no avail.

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:31 AM, Michael Peel <email at mikepeel.net> wrote:
> 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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