They did announce a maintenance window on their website.
Must have been a doozy.
On 3/19/16 8:51 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
On Sat, Mar 19, 2016 at 05:38:03AM +0000,
Dmitry Sherman <[email protected]> wrote
a message of 13 lines which said:
dig www.cisco.com @8.8.8.8
Better to test through the authoritative name servers. The problem was
there, as documented in
<https://www.reddit.com/r/networking/comments/4b2bgo/cisco_website_is_down/d15iu63>
So, it was not because of the long CNAME chain, unlike what I wrote
previously.
