
It seems that mediatemple.net and sites for which they serve DNS have been down for 30 minutes or so. Their twitter claims that it seems to be a DNS misconfiguration and that the servers are not actually down. -Paul

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Paul McMillan <paul@mcmillan.ws> wrote:
It seems that mediatemple.net and sites for which they serve DNS have been down for 30 minutes or so. Their twitter claims that it seems to be a DNS misconfiguration and that the servers are not actually down.
some day, virendra is going to have to create the [not-an-outage-its-just-broken-dns] list. ...lori

On 5/25/2010 18:41, Lori Barfield wrote:
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Paul McMillan <paul@mcmillan.ws> wrote:
It seems that mediatemple.net and sites for which they serve DNS have been down for 30 minutes or so. Their twitter claims that it seems to be a DNS misconfiguration and that the servers are not actually down.
some day, virendra is going to have to create the [not-an-outage-its-just-broken-dns] list.
Can you point to a scholarly discussion on the differences (and how to make them visible) between outage-broken, not-outage-broken, outage-not-broken, and not-outage-not-broken suitable for display to whiny customers? -- Somebody should have said: A democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote. Requiescas in pace o email Ex turpi causa non oritur actio Eppure si rinfresca ICBM Targeting Information: http://tinyurl.com/4sqczs http://tinyurl.com/7tp8ml

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
On 5/25/2010 18:41, Lori Barfield wrote:
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Paul McMillan <paul@mcmillan.ws> wrote:
It seems that mediatemple.net and sites for which they serve DNS have been down for 30 minutes or so. Their twitter claims that it seems to be a DNS misconfiguration and that the servers are not actually down.
some day, virendra is going to have to create the [not-an-outage-its-just-broken-dns] list.
Can you point to a scholarly discussion on the differences (and how to make them visible) between outage-broken, not-outage-broken, outage-not-broken, and not-outage-not-broken suitable for display to whiny customers?
i would, but the dns isn't working. ...lori

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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
Can you point to a scholarly discussion on the differences (and how to make them visible) between outage-broken, not-outage-broken, outage-not-broken, and not-outage-not-broken suitable for display to whiny customers?
i would, but the dns isn't working.
Actually, the latest report indicates a DDoS: http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/category/system-incidents/1319-mt-medi a-temple-network-unavailability/ See also: http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20005978-245.html - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.5.3 (Build 5003) wj8DBQFL/KF5q1pz9mNUZTMRAhTKAKD+NiMjGQi1M9TEV+XPt3oEO3Y5NwCg5HNK WPpt/P97AMtohGF6YDOR/no= =QkyE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/

On 5/25/2010 23:20, Paul Ferguson wrote:
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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Lori Barfield <itdirector@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net> wrote:
Can you point to a scholarly discussion on the differences (and how to make them visible) between outage-broken, not-outage-broken, outage-not-broken, and not-outage-not-broken suitable for display to whiny customers?
i would, but the dns isn't working.
Actually, the latest report indicates a DDoS:
http://weblog.mediatemple.net/weblog/category/system-incidents/1319-mt-medi a-temple-network-unavailability/
An un-broken version of that URL is at http://tinyurl.com/36np8hm # .
See also:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-27080_3-20005978-245.html
- - ferg
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