Wikipedia Explains Today's Global Outage 153
gnujoshua writes "The Wikimedia Tech Blog has a post explaining why many users were unable to reach Wikimedia sites due to DNS resolution failure. The article states, 'Due to an overheating problem in our European data center many of our servers turned off to protect themselves. As this impacted all Wikipedia and other projects access from European users, we were forced to move all user traffic to our Florida cluster, for which we have a standard quick failover procedure in place, that changes our DNS entries. However, shortly after we did this failover switch, it turned out that this failover mechanism was now broken, causing the DNS resolution of Wikimedia sites to stop working globally. This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects."
Wow! (Score:1, Funny)
DNA resolution failure
This was terrible! (Score:1, Funny)
Because of this outage, I actually had to work this morning.
DNA DNS? (Score:2, Funny)
I could see why the failover didn't work... They should try resolving names instead of nucleic acids. :\
Do we accept this... (Score:4, Funny)
...as proof of global warming?
rndc flush (Score:3, Funny)
I noticed wikipedia wasn't resolving this morning.
Flushing my "DNA" cache fixed it ;-))
rndc flush
Re:Hate (Score:3, Funny)
I have a problem with getting it out of the sheets.
DNA resolution? (Score:3, Funny)
Whoa, why is the DNS resolving dATP.dGTP.dCTP.dATP?!?
Hour Delay (Score:5, Funny)
This problem was quickly resolved, but unfortunately it may take up to an hour before access is restored for everyone, due to caching effects.
If you don't want to wait an hour for it to update, you can open a command prompt and type "ipconfig /flushdna".
Please be warned that this may also revert you to some sort of single-celled organism.
FTFA (Score:5, Funny)
We apologize for the inconvenience this has caused.
[Citation needed]
Re:Wow! (Score:4, Funny)
DNA resolution failure
Clearly they thought captchas were too easy to defeat.
Re:Hour Delay (Score:5, Funny)
I just assumed DNS was reverted... (Score:1, Funny)
...to the old setting by some Admin who edited it the last time, and who would be damned if he let anyone else get in the last word.
Deleted? (Score:5, Funny)
I thought maybe they had simply deleted Wikipedia because some admin decided nothing on there was "notable".
Global "Outrage"? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Hour Delay (Score:3, Funny)
I /flushdna all the time. Hasn't had any noticeable effect except clogging my toilet.
...?!
I'd recommend you see a doctor about that.