I'm quite surprised at everyone making so many allowances. If this site were Amazon.com, Apple.com, or CNN.com; you can bet they would have had something up right away. I know this site isn't that big or as important. I guess I'm alone on this one. Sorry to trouble everyone.
On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Peter Becker <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "The Java Posse" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<javaposse%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en. > > -- Robert Casto www.IWantFreeShipping.com Find Amazon Filler Items easily! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
