For more information on the root cause of this outage see Leslie Carr's description sent to wikitech-l: http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/wikitech-l/2012-July/061599.html. The way the routers were bouncing is the reason it was intermittent and continued to work for some people while breaking for others.
-ben On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 2:50 PM, WereSpielChequers < werespielchequ...@gmail.com> wrote: > After ten minute and three unsuccessful attempts to categorise an image via > Hotcat I've now got the following error message: > > Request: GET > > http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Images_from_the_Geograph_British_Isles_project_needing_categories_in_grid_SU1026 > , > from 91.198.174.56 via amssq33.esams.wikimedia.org (squid/2.7.STABLE9) to > () > Error: ERR_CANNOT_FORWARD, errno (11) Resource temporarily unavailable at > Mon, 02 Jul 2012 21:45:48 GMT > > Normally Commons only goes down for a minute or so at a time, any one know > what the problem is this evening? > > WSC > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia-l mailing list > Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l