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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Paul McMillan <paul at 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 at 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?

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On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at cox.net> wrote:
> On 5/25/2010 18:41, Lori Barfield wrote:
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Paul McMillan <paul at 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 9:01 PM, Lori Barfield <itdirector at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at 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

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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 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:21 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon at 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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Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting
the vote.

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