On 03/06/10 14:41, Robert Casto wrote:
It doesn't matter what happened. It is not that hard to change some
domain records to point to another machine somewhere and put up a
simple page that tells people what is going on.
In some sense it actually is -- due to the fact that domain records are
cached across the world. Changing the entry is easy, but then it can
take a very long time to affect people. And it can take as long to go back.
Normally it should be pretty straightforward to route the HTTP traffic
to a different server (a netbook can serve a small static page easily).
If your network is disconnected from the world life gets much harder,
though.
And of course there is always the chance that people believed in the
"nearly fixed" a bit too much. After all setting up an alternative page
takes resources from fixing the real problem.
Peter
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