Yes, most likely it was AOL's proxy servers. They are famous for telling users things like "The web site you are trying to contact is down or currently too busy to respond to your request" (I made that up, but it's close). In fact, it is their own proxy servers that are screwed up.
This is a major pet peeve of mine, as you can probably tell. I think it's grounds for a lawsuit since they are harming the reputation of the web site, when in fact it's AOL that's messed up. Smart AOL users realize it's AOL's problem; the new/dumb ones don't. Jim > > Hello, > > I had a client call last evening saying they were unable to access my > website. The error returned was 502 Too many users. I looked up 502 and it's > Bad Gateway. Grepping thru the source I could find no reason why AOL server > would return this. I'm running AOL 33 with arsdigital patches and ACS 4.2 on > Solaris. One interesting thing I noticed. I have some log entries that I > believe were from the client and it appears they are an AOL user. Could it > be the AOL Internet gateway had too many users? > > Barry >
